Bible word study

Malach (Strong’s H4414): Meaning in the Bible

Malach (מָלַח) is the Hebrew word numbered H4414 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; also to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt). In the King James Bible it is translated salt, season, temper together, vanish away..

• Original wordמָלַח
• Transliterationmâlach
• Pronunciationmaw-lakh'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH4414
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root; also as denominative from H4417

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Malach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Malach (H4414) stands behind 5 English renderings in 4 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (2), Exodus (1), Leviticus (1).

How the King James Bible renders Malach, by count

• all1 of 5 (20 percent)
• away1 of 5 (20 percent)
• salted1 of 5 (20 percent)
• season1 of 5 (20 percent)
• tempered1 of 5 (20 percent)

Three places to read Malach

• Exodus 30:35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
• Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
• Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Malach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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