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H4414 מָלַח (mâlach) maw-lakh'
Hebrew
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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

Scatter | verb qal, verb pu'al, verb hof

to salt, to apply salt, to rub with salt = to sprinkle or rub salt over an object; ► in order to cleanse it or to preserve it

EXO 30:35 · LEV 2:13 · EZK 16:4 · EZK 16:4

verb

Non-Exist | verb nif | ≈ בלה

to vanish, to melt away, to be dispersed exact meaning unsure; probably: = to gradually disappear from existence

ISA 51:6

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

EZR 4:14

1 ISA 51:6 DCH suggests the possibility of an additional meaning: to be dark

Reinier de Blois

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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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