malach (to dissipate)

Meaning

To tear away, dissipate(Niphal) to be dispersed, be dissipated
To salt, season(Qal) to salt, season · (Pual) to be salted · (Hophal) to be rubbed or washed with salt

How it's translated

salted 1
you will salt 1
they will be dispersed 1
and certainly 1
you were rubbed with salt 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Exodus 1
Leviticus 1
Isaiah 1
Ezekiel 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Leviticus 2:13And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Ezekiel 16:4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

Hebrew dictionary

מָלַח malach · to dissipate

1) to tear away, dissipate 1a) (Niphal) to be dispersed, be dissipated

מָלַח malach · to salt

1) to salt, season 1a) (Qal) to salt, season 1b) (Pual) to be salted 1c) (Hophal) to be rubbed or washed with salt Aramaic equivalent: me.lach (מְלַח "to eat salt" H4415)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “dissipate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DISSIPATE, verb transitive

[Latin, to throw.]

To scatter; to disperse; to drive asunder.
To expend; to squander; to scatter property in wasteful extravagance; to waste; to consume; as, a man has dissipated his fortune in the pursuit of pleasure.
To scatter the attention.

All definitions and other forms of “dissipate”

DISSIPATE, verb intransitive

To scatter; to disperse; to separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to vanish.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.