מְלַח
mᵉlach · H4416 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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salt
White crystalline substance, mainly consisting of sodium chloride; normally used for seasoning or preserving food; associated with infertility of the soil but also with permanence
ExamplesEzra 4:14 “Now because we are in the service of the palace, and it is not fitting for us to see the king’s shame, for this reason we have sent word and informed the king,
Ezra 6:9 “And whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail,
Ezra 7:22 up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred kors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of anointing oil, and salt as needed.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֵיכַלpalace 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָאnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְלַחhave maintenance 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἅλας hálas · G217 · salt
- Greek ἅλας (hálas, G217) directly translates the Hebrew מְלַח (mᵉlach, H4416) as 'salt' in its literal sense, representing the standard Greek rendering of the Hebrew term across both cultic/covenant contexts (salt of the covenant) and general usage.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Minerals001002005009
- Ezra 6:9 has King Darius decree, “whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail.”
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4416. melach מְלַח noun masculine salt (see Biblical Hebrew); — ׳מ absolute Ezr 6:9; Ezr…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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