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salxā סַלְכָה ‘Salecah’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from an unused root meaning to walk

salxā pr n loc
Salcah or Salchah = "migration"
1) a town or district at the extreme eastern limit of Bashan and allocated to the tribe of Gad; modern 'Sulkhad' which is 56 miles (90 km) east of the Jordan at the southern extremity of the Hauran mountain range

Mentioned in Deuteronomy 3:10 Joshua 12:5, 13:11 1 Chronicles 5:11

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