STRONGS NUMBER H4423


Word Summary
melet: mortar, cement
Original Word: מֶלֶט
Transliteration: melet
Phonetic Spelling: (meh'-let)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: mortar, cement
Meaning: mortar -- cement
Strong's Concordance
cement, clay

From malat, cement (from its plastic smoothness) -- clay.

see HEBREW malat

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4423. melet

מֶ֫לֶטnoun [masculine] mortar, cement (etymology dubious; Aramaic id., whence Arabic Frä10); — Jeremiah 43:9.