Strong H4414H4414Bמָלַח
to salt
One of the 2 senses of Strong H4414
- Transliteration
- mâlach
- Pronunciation
- maw-lakh'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
1) to salt, season
1a) (Qal) to salt, season
1b) (Pual) to be salted
1c) (Hophal) to be rubbed or washed with salt
Aramaic equivalent: me.lach (מְלַח "to eat salt" H4415)
1a) (Qal) to salt, season
1b) (Pual) to be salted
1c) (Hophal) to be rubbed or washed with salt
Aramaic equivalent: me.lach (מְלַח "to eat salt" H4415)
General definition
A primitive root; properly to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively to disappear as dust; also (as denominative from H4417) to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt): - X at {all} {salt} {season} temper {together} vanish away.
In the Bible
Strong H4414B appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- at1
- salt1
- season1
- temper1
First verses
- Exodus 30:35And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
- Leviticus 2:13And 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.
- Ezekiel 16:4And 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.