Salt Sea en · PROPN
Etymology
Calque of Hebrew ים המלח (Yam HaMelakh), principally from its appearance in the Bible.
Meanings
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(archaic) Synonym of Dead Sea.
Archaeologists suggest that the Plain of Sodom is now submerged under the southern tongue of the Salt Sea.
1983 August 20, Charley Shively, “Sodom, Nagasaki and the Final Conflagration”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 7:
Forms
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| the Salt Sea | canonical | lexicographic |