מָלַח (mālaḥ) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning salt. It appears
5 times
in 4 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H4414).
Also rendered
to dissipate
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1197)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1197)salt, season; rubbed, washed with salt; rub, disappear; temper together, vanish away
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
מָלַחverb, denominative: salt, season
Qal(object offering).
Pualsalted, i.e. the incense
Hophali.e. rubbed or washed with salt (of infant, in personification).
Strong's H4414מָלַח: 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) KJV:× at all, salt, season, temper together, vanish away.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.