From malach in its second. Sense; a sailor (as following "the salt") -- mariner.
see HEBREW malach
H4419. mallach
[מַלָּח] noun masculine mariner (loan-word from Assyrian mala—u DlHWB 412 compare IdProverbs 1.178; HalZA iv. 1880, 53; so also Aramaic (see Brock.), whence Arabic Frä221); — plural מַלָּחִים Jonah 1:5; Ezekiel 27:29; מַלָּחַיִךְ 27:27; מַלָּחֵיהֶם 27:9 (BaNB 49 Anm. 3); — mariners, sailors of ship going to Tarshish Jonah 1:5 (compare הַחֹבֵל רַב 1:6); to Tyre Ezekiel 27:9, compare 27:27; 27:29 ("" חֹבְלִים).
מִלְחָמָה see I. לחם.