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# מָלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4414

**tear away** — 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

tear away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4414/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָלַח: vb. tear away dissipate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4414/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tear away, fig. dissipate (cf. Arabic مَلَخَ pull out eye, tooth, &c.; especially Dozy tear off branch to plant it, &c. so Ethiopic መልኀ evellere);— fig. be dispersed in fragments, dissipated, Pf. שָׁמַיִם כֶּעָשָׁן נִמְלָ֑חוּ Is 51:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: they will be dispersed (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 51:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.51.6/#tree)

שְׂאוּ֩ לַשָּׁמַ֨יִם עֵֽינֵיכֶ֜ם וְֽהַבִּ֧יטוּ אֶל־הָאָ֣רֶץ מִתַּ֗חַת כִּֽי־שָׁמַ֜יִם כֶּעָשָׁ֤ן נִמְלָ֙חוּ֙ וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙ כַּבֶּ֣גֶד תִּבְלֶ֔ה וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כְּמוֹ־כֵ֣ן יְמוּת֑וּן וִישֽׁוּעָתִי֙ לְעוֹלָ֣ם תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה וְצִדְקָתִ֖י לֹ֥א תֵחָֽת׃ס

*Word for word:* lift.up to the heavens eyes your and look to the earth (from) beneath (dm) \[the\].heavens like (the) smoke they.will.be.dispersed and the earth like (the) garment it.will.wear.out and inhabitants its like gnat\[s\] they will.die and salvation my forever of.perpetuity it.will.be and righteousness my not it.will.be.broken

*JPS 1917:* Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away 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 favour shall not be abolished.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4414.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4414/): 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).