Mâlach — H4414

Definition

verb

properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt)

1. to tear away, dissipate
1. (Niphal) to be dispersed, be dissipated
2. to salt, season
1. (Qal) to salt, season
2. (Pual) to be salted
3. (Hophal) to be rubbed or washed with salt

Usually translated as

season, temper together, at all, salt, vanish away

Origin

a primitive root; also as denominative from H4417

• Derived from Melach (H4417)

Greek equivalents

• hálas (G217)
• halízō (G233)
• mígnymi (G3396)

Occurrences

Mâlach occurs 5 times in 4 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Leviticus (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Exodus 30:35 — And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together (מְמֻלָּ֖ח), pure and holy:
• Leviticus 2:13 — And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season (תִּמְלָח֒) 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 51:6 — Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away (נִמְלָ֙חוּ֙) 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 16:4 — And 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 (הֻמְלַ֔חַתְּ), nor swaddled at all.
• Ezekiel 16:4 — And 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 (וְהָמְלֵ֙חַ֙), nor swaddled at all.