מָלַחmâlach

מָלַח: tear away, dissipate

Pronunciation: maw-lakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4414

Meanings

Niph`al: be dispersed in fragments, dissipated (Isaiah 51:6)

מָלַח: salt, season

Pu`al: salted (Exodus 30:35)

Hoph`al: rubbed or washed with salt (Ezekiel 16:4)

: eat salt

Pe`al: we have eaten the salt of the palace, be intimate with (Ezra 4:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 30:35 Using the usual techniques of the incense maker, blend the spices together and sprinkle them with salt to produce a pure and holy incense.
  • Leviticus 2:13 Season all your grain offerings with salt to remind you of God’s eternal covenant. Never forget to add salt to your grain offerings.
  • Isaiah 51:6 Look up to the skies above, and gaze down on the earth below. For the skies will disappear like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a piece of clothing. The people of the earth will die like flies, but my salvation lasts forever. My righteous rule will never end!
  • Ezekiel 16:4 On the day you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and wrapped in cloth.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).