Calkah means “Salcah” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5548 — chrio (“anoint”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5548 סַלכָּה (Calkah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Calkah (sal-kaw') n/l. 1. walking 2. Salcah, a place East of the Jordan It has 4 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include salcah and salchah. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Calkah (sal-kaw') n/l. 1. walking 2. Salcah, a place East of the Jordan [from an unused root. meaning to walk] KJV: Salcah, Salchah.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5548. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
Salecah
Usage: § Salcah or Salchah = "migration" 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Calkah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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4 indexed usages in Old Testament.
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5548.
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salcah:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5548, grouped by book.
Calkah (Strong's H5548) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Salcah". Calkah (sal-kaw') n/l. 1. walking 2. Salcah, a place East of the Jordan
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's H5548 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5548 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as salcah and salchah. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.