STRONGS NUMBER H4419


Word Summary
mallach: a mariner
Original Word: מַלָּח
Transliteration: mallach
Phonetic Spelling: (mal-lawkh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a mariner
Meaning: a mariner
Strong's Concordance
mariner

From malach in its second. Sense; a sailor (as following "the salt") -- mariner.

see HEBREW malach

Brown-Driver-Briggs

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 מַלָּחִיםJonah 1:5; Ezekiel 27:29; מַלָּחַיִךְ27:27; מַלָּחֵיהֶם27:9 (BaNB 49 Anm. 3); — mariners, sailors of ship going to Tarshish Jonah 1:5 (compare הַחֹבֵל רַב1:6); to Tyre Ezekiel 27:9, compare 27:27; 27:29 ("" חֹבְלִים‎).

מִלְחָמָה‎ see I. לחם‎.