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Strong's #4418 - מֶלַח
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2338) hlm (מלהה MLHh) AC: Season CO: Salt AB: ?
V) hlm (מלהה MLHh) - I. Season:To season with salt. II. Disapp (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hophal, Pual) |kjv: salt, season, temper, vanish - Strongs: H4414 (מָלַח)
Nm ) hlm (מלהה MLHh) - I. Salt:[Hebrew and Aramaic] II. Mariner:One who sails the sea. III. Rag:An old or rotten rag. [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (37): salt, rags, maintenance, mariner - Strongs: H4415 (מְלַח), H4416 (מְלַח), H4417 (מֶלַח), H4418 (מֶלַח), H4419 (מַלָּח)
Nf1) ehlm (מלההה MLHhH) - Salt: A land of salt as barren. KJV (3): barren, barrenness, salt - Strongs: H4420 (מְלֵחָה)
dm) hflm (מלוהה MLWHh) - Mallow: As growing around a salt marsh. KJV (1): mallow - Strongs: H4408 (מַלּוּחַ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
II. מלח (√ of following; meaning dubious).
מֶלַח (Arab. مِلْحُ) m. salt, יָםֽ הַמֶּלַח the salt sea, i.e. the Dead Sea, or lacus asphaltites, the water of which is impregnated and almost saturated with salt, Genesis 14:3; Numbers 34:12; Deuteronomy 3:17. גֵּי מֶלַח the valley of salt, see גַּי. בְּרִית מֶלַח Numbers 18:19; 2 Chronicles 13:5 (comp. Leviticus 2:13) a covenant of salt, i.e. most holy, most firm, because in making such a covenant, consecrated salt was eaten. נְצִיב מֶלַח a statue of salt, a stone of fossil salt, resembling a column, such as are found [?] near the Dead Sea, Genesis 19:26.
Derivatives, מָלַח No. II., מַלָּח, מְלֵחָה, מַלּוּחַ.
II. מֶלַח only in plur. מְלָחִים torn garments, or rags, Jeremiah 38:11, 12 Jeremiah 38:12 from the root מָלַח No. 1.
