H4414: מָלַח
mâlach · pronounced maw-lakh' · “to dissipate”
Definition
properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt)
KJV translates it as: [idiom] at all, salt, season, temper together, vanish away.
Word origin: a primitive root; also as denominative from H4417 (מֶלַח)
Extended definition
1a) (Niphal) to be dispersed, be dissipated
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4414 is translated
- salted ×1
- you will salt ×1
- they will be dispersed ×1
- certainly to be salted ×1
- you were rubbed with salt ×1
Bible verses with H4414 (mâlach)
Mâlach appears in 4 verses.
- Exodus 30:35
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
- Leviticus 2:13
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
- Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
- Ezekiel 16:4
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.