4416. melach

Lexicon

melach: salt

Original Word: מְלַח
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: mlach
Pronunciation: meh'-lakh
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-akh')
KJV: + maintenance, salt
NASB: salt
Word Origin: [(Aramaic) from H441 (אַלוּף אַלּוּף - Chief)5]

1. salt

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

maintenance, salt

(Aramaic) from mlach; salt -- + maintenance, salt.

see HEBREW mlach

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
(Aramaic) corresponding to melach
Definition
salt
NASB Translation
salt (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְלַח noun masculine salt (see Biblical Hebrew); — ׳מ absolute Ezra 6:9; Ezra 7:22 (both for sacrifices), construct Ezra 4:14.

Forms and Transliterations

וּמְלַ֖ח ומלח מְלַ֣ח ׀ מְלַ֤ח מלח mə·laḥ meLach məlaḥ ū·mə·laḥ umeLach ūməlaḥ

Englishman's Concordance

Ezra 4:14
HEB: קֳבֵל֙ דִּֽי־ מְלַ֤ח הֵֽיכְלָא֙ מְלַ֔חְנָא
INT: according to have maintenance of the palace the service

Ezra 6:9
HEB: שְׁמַיָּ֟א חִנְטִ֞ין מְלַ֣ח ׀ חֲמַ֣ר וּמְשַׁ֗ח
NAS: and wheat, salt, wine
KJV: of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil,
INT: of heaven and wheat salt wine and anointing

Ezra 7:22
HEB: מְשַׁ֖ח מְאָ֑ה וּמְלַ֖ח דִּי־ לָ֥א
NAS: baths of oil, and salt as needed.
KJV: of oil, and salt without
INT: of oil an hundred and salt forasmuch without

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 4416
3 Occurrences

mə·laḥ — 2 Occ.
ū·mə·laḥ — 1 Occ.