מַלָּח
mallâch · H4419 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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sailor
A person who works as a member of the crew of ship or boat
ExamplesEzekiel 27:9 “The elders of Gebal and her wise men were with you repairing your leaks; All the ships of the sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:27 “Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, Your seamen and your sailors, Your repairers of leaks, your dealers in merchandise, And all your men of war who are in you, With all your contingent that is in your midst, Will fall into the heart of the seas On the day of your overthrow.
Ezekiel 27:29 “All who handle the oar, The seamen and all the sailors of the sea Will come down from their ships; They will stand on the land,
How it’s used In 2 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ךְyour 1
- הֶםtheir 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- יָרֵאto be afraid, to fear, to be in awe of 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- חֹבֵל chôbêl · H2259 · sailor
- Hebrew near-synonym denoting a sailor or ship's pilot. While both refer to seafaring professionals, חֹבֵל often specifically denotes the one who steers/pilots the ship, whereas מַלָּח is the more general term for mariner/sailor. Both appear together in maritime contexts (e.g., Ezekiel 27:8, 27-29) as distinct but related seafaring roles.
- שׁוּט shûwṭ · H7751 · to go about, to rove about, to row
- Hebrew term for one who rows a ship. While מַלָּח is the general term for mariner, שָׁט specifically denotes the rower. These are overlapping but distinct maritime roles, with שָׁט being a more specific type of seafaring worker.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ναύτης naútēs · G3492 · sailor
- Direct Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew מַלָּח (mallāḥ), both denoting one who works aboard a ship as a sailor or mariner. This is the standard LXX rendering of the Hebrew term.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מַלָּח names a sailor or mariner, a seafaring occupation, as among Tyre's skilled crew of "mariners" (Ezekiel 27:9, 27, 29) and the sailors on Jonah's ship (Jonah 1:5).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4419. mallach [מַלָּח] noun masculine mariner (loan-word from Assyrian mala—u DlHWB 412…
[מַלָּח] noun masculine mariner (loan-word from Assyrian mala—u DlHWB 412 compare IdProverbs 1.178; HalZA iv. 1880, 53; so also Aramaic (see Brock.), whence Arabic Frä221); — plural מַלָּחִים Jon 1:5; Eze 27:29; מַלָּחַיִךְ Eze 27:27; מַלָּחֵיהֶם Eze 27:9 (BaNB 49 Anm. 3); — mariners, sailors of ship going to Tarshish Jon 1:5 (compare הַחֹבֵל רַב Jon 1:6); to Tyre Eze 27:9, compare Eze 27:27; Eze 27:29 (|| חֹבְלִים).
מִלְחָמָה see I. לחם.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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
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