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# מָלַח

Biblical Hebrew

**salt** — 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

salt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5dc_5b7_5d7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָלַח²: vb. denom. salt, season [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5dc_5b7_5d7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. salt, season; Impf. 2 ms. תִּמְלָ֑ח sq. acc. Lv 2:13 (obj. offering). Pt. מְמֻלָּח Ex 30:35 salted, i.e. the incense (v. Di.) Pf. 2 fs. + Inf. abs. הָמְלֵחַ לֹא הֻמְלַ֫חַתְּ Ez 16:4, i.e. rubbed or washed with salt (of infant, in personification).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: at all (be salted) (1); salted (1); you were rubbed with salt (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 30:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.35/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ אֹתָהּ֙ קְטֹ֔רֶת רֹ֖קַח מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה רוֹקֵ֑חַ מְמֻלָּ֖ח טָה֥וֹר קֹֽדֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make it incense ointment \[the\].work of.a.perfumer salted pure a.holy.thing

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

[Leviticus 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.2.13/#tree)

וְכָל־קָרְבַּ֣ן מִנְחָתְךָ֮ בַּמֶּ֣לַח תִּמְלָח֒ וְלֹ֣א תַשְׁבִּ֗ית מֶ֚לַח בְּרִ֣ית אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ מֵעַ֖ל מִנְחָתֶ֑ךָ עַ֥ל כָּל־קָרְבָּנְךָ֖ תַּקְרִ֥יב מֶֽלַח׃ס

*Word for word:* and every present your.grain.offering your with (the) salt you.will.salt and not you.must.cause.to.cease the.salt of.the.covenant your.God your from on offering your.grain with every present your you.will.present salt

*JPS 1917:* And every meal-offering of thine shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering; with all thy offerings thou shalt offer salt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5dc_5b7_5d7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5dc_5b7_5d7/): 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).