Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; also (as denominative from 4417) to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt)
KJV Usage: X at all, salt, season, temper together, vanish away
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָלַח (ma.lach) — to dissipate. 1) to tear away, dissipate 1a) (Niphal) to be dispersed, be dissipated
מָלַח (ma.lach) — to salt. 1) to salt, season 1a) (Qal) to salt, season 1b) (Pual) to be salted 1c) (Hophal) to be rubbed or washed with salt Aramaic equivalent: me.lach (מְלַח "to eat salt" H4415)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַלּוּחַ · מֶלַח · מְלֵחָה
verb
Non-Exist | verb nif | ≈ בלה
to vanish, to melt away, to be dispersed exact meaning unsure; probably: = to gradually disappear from existence
verb
Control | verb pe'al
Collocation: מלח מְלַח הֵיכַל
to eat salt literally: to eat the salt of the palace; = state in which humans are under obligation to their king and are expected to look out for the king's interests
1 ISA 51:6 DCH suggests the possibility of an additional meaning: to be dark
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מָלַח] vb. tear away, dissipate;—Niph. fig. be dispersed in fragments, dissipated, Is 51:6. ref
[מָלַח] vb. denom. salt, season Qal Lv 2:13 (obj. offering).
Pu. salted, i.e. the incense
Hoph. i.e. rubbed or washed with salt (of infant, in personification).
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