Word

מָלַח

mâlach · H4414 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to salt, to apply salt, to rub with salt

To sprinkle or rub salt over an object; in order to cleanse it or to preserve it

Examples
Exodus 30:35 “You shall make incense from it all, a skillful mixture, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.
Leviticus 2:13 ‘Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God will not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Ezekiel 16:4 “As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
to vanish, to melt away, to be dispersed

Exact meaning unsure; probably: to gradually disappear from existence

Examples
Isaiah 51:6 “Raise your eyes to the sky, Then look to the earth beneath; For the sky will vanish like smoke, And the earth will wear out like a garment And its inhabitants will die in the same way. But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not fail.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 2
שָׁמַיִםheaven, sky 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קׇרְבָּןoffering 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with+ מֶלַחsalt 1
כlike/as+ עָשָׁןsmoke 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Scatter002003002022: The fact-packet data assigns this word the Scatter domain, likely reflecting the sense of rubbing or applying salt by scattering it over a surface, as in the seasoning of a grain offering (Leviticus 2:13).
Non-Exist002002002006: The verb also carries the sense "vanish away," as in Job's lament of days that "vanish" or come to nothing (Job 6:6, in some readings), a cessation of existence.
Control002003002007: This entry carries no independent “Control” sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the verb “salt” or “season with salt”, as in “Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt” (Leviticus 2:13). The “Control” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme מְלַח (mᵉlach, H4415) rather than independently attested here.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מָלַחmâlach · H4414מֶלַח melach · H4417 · salt · 24×מַלָּח mallâch · H4419 · sailor · 4×מְלַח mᵉlach · H4416 · maintenance, salt · 3×מְלֵחָה mᵉlêchâh · H4420 · salt land, salt waste · 3×מָלָח mâlâch · H4418 · salt · 2×מַלּוּחַ mallûwach · H4408 · saltbush, saltwort, mallow · 1×מְלַח mᵉlach · H4415 · have maintenance · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4414. malach I. [מָלַח] verb tear away, figurative dissipate (compare Arabic pull out…

H4414. malach
I. [מָלַח] verb tear away, figurative dissipate (compare Arabic pull out eye, tooth, &c.; especially Dozy tear off branch to plant it, &c. so Ethiopic evellere); —
Niph`al figurative be dispersed in fragments, dissipated, Perfect נִמְלָ֑חוּ כֶּעָשָׁן שָׁמַיִם Isa 51:6.
III. [מָלַח] verb denominative salt, season;
Qal Imperfect2masculine singular תִּמְלָ֑ךְ followed by accusative Lev 2:13 (object offering).
Pu`al Participle מְמֻלָּח Exo 30:35 salted, i.e. the incense (see Di.)
Hoph`al Perfect2feminine singular + Infinitive absolute הֻמְלַ֫חַתּ לֹא הָמְלֵחַ Eze 16:4, i.e. rubbed or washed with salt (of infant, in personification).
[מְלַח] verb denominative with accusative of congnate meaning with verb, eat salt; —
Pe`al Perfect1plural מְלַחְנָא Ezr 4:14 we have eaten the salt of the palace (so most), i.e. have assumed obligations of loyalty, compare M69* K§ 71, 2 (and Syriac be intimate with PS2134); Str (after NesMM 30 f.) thinks noun with suffix: our salt is the salt of the palace.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Non-Exist1 occurrence Control0 occurrences Scatter3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0