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Salt Sea

Ancient site, identified with Dead Sea.

Placebody of water21 verses

Where was it?

One proposed modern location, with the scholarly support recorded for it.

Dead Sea · waterOpen in OpenStreetMap

Names

  • Siddim — שִׂדִּים sidiym (H7708) · [none] — Genesis 14:3
  • Salt Sea — יָם הַמֶּלַח yam hamelah “sea [of] the salt” (H4417) · ἡ θάλασσα τῶν ἁλῶν ē̔ thálassa tō͂n a̔lō͂n “the sea [of] the salt” (G217) — Genesis 14:3

Name variants

  • Dead Sea (61)
  • Salt Sea (44)
  • Sea of the Arabah (22)
  • sea of the Arabah (8)
  • Sea (2)
  • Dead Sea Valley (1)
  • Sea of Arabah (1)
  • sea of Arabah (1)

References

and 6 further references.

Topical references

Outline from Nave's Topical Bible (1897); the sub-headings are Nave's own.