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title: מְלַח — salt · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: מְלַח (lemma:מְלַח), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 4 times: salt. BDB 1906: n.m. salt. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְלַח

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«מְלַח» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **salt** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** lemma:מְלַח · **BDB:** מְלַח

### Glosses

salt (2); the.salt (1); we.eat.salt (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

salt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5dc_5b7_5d7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. salt [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5dc_5b7_5d7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. salt (v. BH);—מ׳ abs. Ezr 6:9; 7:22 (both for sacrifices), cstr. 4:14.

### Jastrow 1903

מְלַח II: to row to balance [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5dc_5b7_5d7/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (denom. of מַלָּח) to row; to balance. Keth. 85ᵃ מְמַלַּח מַלּוּחֵי (not מימלח) rowed the boat (as an act of possession). B. Kam. 117ᵇ מ׳ ביה חד מינייהו (Alf.) one of them tried to keep the boat in balance (against the ass that threatened to upset it); \[ed. מַ׳ ליה לחמרא (Var. מלא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90) he tried to counterbalance the ass\].

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְלַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5dc_5b7_5d7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 7:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.22/)

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עַד־כְּסַף֮ כַּכְּרִ֣ין מְאָה֒ וְעַד־חִנְטִין֙ כֹּרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־חֲמַר֙ בַּתִּ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־בַּתִּ֥ין מְשַׁ֖ח מְאָ֑ה וּמְלַ֖ח דִּי־לָ֥א כְתָֽב׃

*Word for word:* up.to silver talents one.hundred and up.to wheat(s) cors one.hundred and up.to wine baths one.hundred and up.to baths oil one.hundred and salt which not \[is\].writing

*JPS 1917:* unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

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[Ezra 4:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.14/)

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כְּעַ֗ן כָּל־קֳבֵל֙ דִּֽי־מְלַ֤ח הֵֽיכְלָא֙ מְלַ֔חְנָא וְעַרְוַ֣ת מַלְכָּ֔א לָ֥א אֲ‍ֽרִֽיךְ לַ֖נָא לְמֶֽחֱזֵ֑א עַ֨ל־דְּנָ֔ה שְׁלַ֖חְנָא וְהוֹדַ֥עְנָא לְמַלְכָּֽא׃

*Word for word:* now as to because that the.salt of the.palace we.eat.salt and the.dishonor of the.king not \[is\].proper for us to see concerning this we.have.sent and we.have.made.known to the king

*JPS 1917:* Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and announced to the king,

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