Mallow
חַלָּמוּתStrong’s H2495challamut (chal-la-mut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Challamut is the Hebrew word usually translated “purslane”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?”
Meaning
- Purslane, a tasteless plant with thick slimy juice
How it's translated
- purslane 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חַלָּמוּת challamut · mallow
purslane, a tasteless plant with thick slimy juice
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mallow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MALLOW, noun
[Latin malva; Gr. soft; Eng. mellow.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.