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# מַלָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4419

**mariner** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mariner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4419/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלָּח: n.m. mariner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4419/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mariner (loan-word from Assyrian malaḫu DlHWB 412 cf. Id.Prol. 178; HalZA iv. 1889, 53; so also Aramaic ܡܰܠܳܚܳܐ (v. Brock), whence Arabic مَلَّاحٌ Frä221);—pl. מַלָּחִים Jon 1:5 Ez 27:29; מַלָּחַיִךְ Ez 27:27; מַלָּחֵיהֶם v 9 (BaNB 49 Anm. 3);—mariners, sailors of ship going to Tarshish Jon 1:5 (cf. רַב הַחֹבֵל v 6); to Tyre Ez 27:9, cf. v 27:29 (‖ חֹבְלִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: mariners (4).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 27:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.29/#tree)

וְֽיָרְד֞וּ מֵאָנִיּֽוֹתֵיהֶ֗םכֹּ֚ל תֹּפְשֵׂ֣י מָשׁ֔וֹט מַלָּחִ֕ים כֹּ֖ל חֹבְלֵ֣י הַיָּ֑ם אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ יַעֲמֹֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.come.down from ships their all \[those.who\].wield (of).an.oar mariners all the.sailors of the.sea to the land they.will.stand

*JPS 1917:* And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land,

[Ezekiel 27:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.9/#tree)

זִקְנֵ֨י גְבַ֤ל וַחֲכָמֶ֙יהָ֙ הָ֣יוּ בָ֔ךְ מַחֲזִיקֵ֖י בִּדְקֵ֑ךְ כָּל־אֳנִיּ֨וֹת הַיָּ֤ם וּמַלָּֽחֵיהֶם֙ הָ֣יוּ בָ֔ךְ לַעֲרֹ֖ב מַעֲרָבֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.elders of.Gebal and its.wise \[people\] they.were in you the.repairers your.leak\[s\] your all the.ships of the.sea and mariners their they.were in you to trade merchandise your

*JPS 1917:* The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange thy merchandise.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4419.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4419/): 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).