Lexical Definition

‎מַלָּח‎ mallâch (mal-lawkh') mariner ^H:N-M
from ‎מָלַח‎ in its second. sense

mariner.

• a sailor (as following 'the salt')

1) mariner, sailor, seaman

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎מַלָּח‎] noun masculine mariner (loan-word from Assyrian mala—u Dl^{HWB 412} compare Id^{Prov 1.178}; Hal^{ZA 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 (Ba^{NB 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.

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