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title: מַלָּח — mariner · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַלָּח (4419), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: mariner. BDB 1906: n.m. mariner. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַלָּח

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«מַלָּח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mariner** — 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:** 4419 · **BDB:** מַלָּח

### Glosses

mariners (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַלָּח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4419/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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,

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

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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.

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