מָלַח

ma.lach · to salt

Hebrew · Strong's H4414 · Verb · Sounds like: maw-lakh' · 5 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to salt H4414B 4
  • to dissipate H4414A 1

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; also as denominative from מֶלַח; 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); [idiom] at all, salt, season, temper together, vanish away.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[מָלַח] vb. tear away, dissipate;—Niph. fig. be dispersed in fragments, dissipated, Is 51:6.
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[מָלַח] vb. denom. salt, season
Qal Lv 2:13 (obj. offering).
Pu. salted, i.e. the incense
Hoph. i.e. rubbed or washed with salt (of infant, in personification).

Every occurrence

  1. Isaiah 51:6 נִמְלָ֙חוּ֙ nim.La.chu · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    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.

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