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# מַלּוּחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4408

**mallow** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mallow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4408/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלּוּחַ: mallow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4408/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] mallow; plant growing in salt-marsh; Jb 30:4 (cf. NowArch. i. 67, 112).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: mallow (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.4/#tree)

הַקֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי־שִׂ֑יחַ וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ רְתָמִ֣ים לַחְמָֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[those who\].pluck.off mallow on bush\[es\] and.\[the\] root of.broom.plants their.food them

*JPS 1917:* They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4408.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4408/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).