Salt Sea

English

Etymology

Calque of Hebrew ים המלח (Yam HaMelakh), principally from its appearance in the Bible.

Proper noun

the Salt Sea

  1. (archaic) Synonym of Dead Sea.
    • 1983 August 20, Charley Shively, “Sodom, Nagasaki and the Final Conflagration”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 7:
      Archaeologists suggest that the Plain of Sodom is now submerged under the southern tongue of the Salt Sea.

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