Strong's Lexicon

H4419

H4419 — מַלָּח

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmallachnoun mascOccurrences: 4TWOT: 1197d

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H4419
Word:מַלָּח
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from H4414 in its second. sense
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:4
Transliteration:mallach
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:mal-lawkh'
Meaning:1. a sailor (as following "the salt")
KJV Renderings:mariner.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4664

[מַלָּח] noun masculine mariner (loan-word from Assyrian mala—u DlHWB 412 compare Id Prov 1.178 ; HalZA iv. 1880, 53; so also Aramaic [untranscribed source text 2993] (see Brock.), whence Arabic [untranscribed source text 2994] Frä221); — plural מַלָּחִים Jonah 1:5; Ezek 27:29 מַלָּחַיִךְ Ezek 27:27 מַלָּחֵיהֶם Ezek 27:9 (BaNB 49 Anm. 3); — mariners, sailors of ship going to Tarshish Jonah 1:5 (compare רַב הַחֹבֵל Jonah 1:6); to Tyre Ezek 27:9, compare Ezek 27:27 Ezek 27:29 (|| חֹבְלִים).


מִלְחָמָה see I. לחם .


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מלח (mal-lāgh’)

Ezekiel 27:9

KJV: The ancients 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 occupy thy merchandise.calkers: or, stoppers of chinks: Heb. strengtheners, etc
EHCC: the ships...with their mariners

Jonah 1:5

KJV: Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
EHCC: the mariners were afraid,
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