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מְלַח

me.lach

to eat salt

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Strong’s H4415Verb1 time in the Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

we eat salt1

In the text

Ezra 4:14מְלַחְנָא
Now because we are in the service of the palace and it is not fitting for us to allow the king to be dishonored, we have sent to inform the king

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מְלַח] vb. denom. eat salt;—Pe. Ezr 4:14

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.