Salt
מְלַחStrong’s H4416melach (me-lach)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Melach is the Aramaic word usually translated “salt of” and “salt”. It appears in 3 verses 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
- Salt
How it's translated
- salt of 1
- salt 1
- and salt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 6:9And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
- Ezra 7:22Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
Aramaic dictionary
מְלַח melach · salt
salt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “salt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SALT, noun
[Gr.; Latin The radical sense is probably pungent, and if s is radical, the word belongs to the root of Latin salio; but this is uncertain.]
- Common salt is the muriate of soda, a substance used for seasoning certain kinds of food, and for the preservation of meat, etc.
- In chimistry, a body compounded of an acid united to some base, which may be either an alkali, an earth, or a metallic oxyd.
- Taste; sapor; smack.
- Wit; poignancy; as Attic salt
All definitions and other forms of “salt”
SALT, adjective
- Having the taste of salt; impregnated with salt; as salt beef; salt water
- Abounding with salt; as a salt land. Jeremiah 17:6
- Overflowed with salt water, or impregnated with it; as a salt marsh.
- Growing on salt marsh or meadows and having the taste of salt; as salt grass or hay.
- Producing salt water; as a salt spring.
- Lecherous; slacious.
SALT, noun
- The part of a river near the sea, where the water is salt
- A vessel for holding salt
SALT, verb transitive
- To sprinkle, impregnate or season with salt; as, to salt fish, beef or pork.
- To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
SALT, verb intransitive
To deposit salt from a saline substance; as, the brine begins to salt [Used by manufacturers.]
SALT, noun
A leap; the act of jumping. [Not in use.]
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.