מַלָּח
malach · sailor
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4419 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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malach (מַלָּח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sailor”.
"Mallach": a sailor, a seaman.
How to say it
ma·lach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A man who works a ship at sea.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Ezekiel 27:9
The elders of Gebal and her wise men were in you, repairing your cracks; all the ships of the sea and their sailors were in you to carry on your exchange.
- Ezekiel 27:27
Your wealth and your wares, your exchange, your sailors and your pilots, those who repair your cracks, and those who carry on your exchange, and all your men of war who are in you, and all your assembly that is in your midst, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.
- Ezekiel 27:29
And they will come down from their ships, all who handle the oar, the sailors, all the pilots of the sea; on the land they will stand.
- Jonah 1:5
And the sailors were afraid, and they cried out, each to his god, and they hurled the objects that were in the ship into the sea to lighten the load for themselves. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the vessel and had lain down and was sound asleep.