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
- מֶלַחmelach · H4417properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved)
- מַלּוּחַmallûwach · H4408sea-purslain (from its saltness)
- מְלַחmᵉlach · H4415to eat salt, i.e. (generally) subsist
- מָלָחmâlâch · H4418a rag or old garment
- מַלָּחmallâch · H4419a sailor (as following 'the salt')
- מְלֵחָהmᵉlêchâh · H4420properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert
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.
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).