Jos 15:62. A city near Engedi and the Dead Sea, in the wilderness. Van de Velde mentions finding a nahr Maleh ("salt"), one of four ravines which together form the wady el Bedim; another is the wady 'Amreh. ("Gomorrha"?).

A city of Judah (Jos 15:61-62). It may be inferred to have occupied some position on the western shore of the Dead Sea, between En-gedi and Khashm Usdum (the salt mountain).

One of the six cities in the wilderness that fell to the lot of Judah. Jos 15:62. Identified by some with Tell el Milh, 'salt hill,' 31 13' N, 35 1' E.

Salt, City of,

the fifth of the six cities of Judah which lay in the "wilderness."

Jos 15:62

Mr. Robinson expresses his belief that it lay somewhere near the plain at the south end of the Salt Sea.