Lexical Summary malach: to tear away, dissipate Original Word: מָלַחTransliteration: malach Phonetic Spelling: (maw-lakh') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to tear away, dissipate Meaning: to rub to pieces, pulverize, to disappear as dust, to salt Strong's Concordance salt, season, temper together, vanish away A primitive root; properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; also (as denominative from melach) to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt) -- X at all, salt, season, temper together, vanish away. see HEBREW melach Brown-Driver-Briggs H4414. malach I. [מָלַח] verb tear away, figurative dissipate (compare Arabic pull out eye, tooth, &c.; especially Dozy tear off branch to plant it, &c. so Ethiopic evellere); — Niph`al figurative be dispersed in fragments, dissipated, Perfect נִמְלָ֑חוּ כֶּעָשָׁן שָׁמַיִם Isaiah 51:6. III. [מָלַח] verb denominative salt, season; Qal Imperfect2masculine singular תִּמְלָ֑ךְ followed by accusative Leviticus 2:13 (object offering). Pu`al Participle מְמֻלָּח Exodus 30:35 salted, i.e. the incense (see Di.) Hoph`al Perfect2feminine singular + Infinitive absolute הֻמְלַ֫חַתּ לֹא הָמְלֵחַ Ezekiel 16:4, i.e. rubbed or washed with salt (of infant, in personification). [מְלַח] verb denominative with accusative of congnate meaning with verb, eat salt; — Pe`al Perfect1plural מְלַחְנָא Ezra 4:14 we have eaten the salt of the palace (so most), i.e. have assumed obligations of loyalty, compare M69* K§ 71, 2 (and Syriac be intimate with PS2134); Str (after NesMM 30 f.) thinks noun with suffix: our salt is the salt of the palace. |
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