H4419

מַלָּח

mal.lachH:N-M

mariner

mariner, sailor, seaman

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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


מִלְחָמָה see I. לחם.


4 occurrences

Ezekiel (3), Jonah (1)