To eat salt
מְלַחStrong’s H4415melach (me-lach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Melach is the Aramaic word usually translated “we eat salt”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now because we have maintenance from the king’s palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;”
Meaning
- (P'al) to eat salt
How it's translated
- we eat salt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
מְלַח melach · to eat salt
(P'al) to eat salt Aramaic of ma.lach (מָלַח "to salt" H4414B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.