Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4416: מְלַח

mᵉlach · pronounced mel-akh' · “salt”

Definition

salt

KJV translates it as: [phrase] maintenance, salt.

Word origin: (Aramaic) from H4415 (מְלַח);

Extended definition

salt

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4416 is translated

  • salt ×2
  • the salt of ×1

Bible verses with H4416 (mᵉlach)

Mᵉlach appears in 3 verses.

  • Ezra 4:14

    Now because we have maintenance from the king’s palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

  • Ezra 6:9

    And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

  • Ezra 7:22

    Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.