Word Study · Strong's H4415 · Hebrew
מְלַח
melach
mel-akh'
Strong's 1890 spelling: mᵉlach
“to eat salt, i.e. (generally) subsist”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
to eat salt, i.e. (generally) subsist
Rendered in the KJV as
[phrase] have maintenance.
- 1occurrencein the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 1inflected formdistinct spellings
Across 1 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 1
- מְלַ֔חְנָא1
How it is rendered · 1
- we eat salt1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common plural1
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- AVqp1cp · 1
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Same headword in Strong's