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Hebrew
expression
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Transliteration
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Literal
translation/
literary sources
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Modern
usage
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melah
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"Can
what is tasteless be eaten without salt? Does mallow juice have any
flavor? I refuse to touch them; They are like food when I am sick."
(Job 6:6-7) |
salt |
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malah
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salted |
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malah
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In
their fright, the sailors cried out, each to his own god; and they
flung the ship's cargo overboard to make it lighter for them. (Jonah
1:5) |
sailor |
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maluah
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"The
good cognac and choice savory morsels..." Berkowitz
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salty
or
savory
or spicy food
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maluah |
Our ancestors
ate maluah while they were building the Temple. (Talmud
Kidushin 66a)
"On the
Jordan's banks, nothing has changed ... the same Eucalyptus grove,
bridge, boat and the scent of the maluah over the water.
Naomi
Shemer (from the modern Israeli song The Eucalyptus Grove)
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Wild
bush with gray leaves and small green flowers. Most varieties grow
in brackish swampy areas. |
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dag-maluah
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pickled
fish (more
on salt herring) |
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mei-meleh
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"He
makes salt water and dips his bread in it. (Talmud,
Shabbat 14:2) |
salt
water, brine (Talmudic
thoughts on salt) |
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yam-hamelah
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"The
blue Dead Sea moves slowly and small cloud floats above it."
Eitan Peretz (from the modern Israeli song Ein Gedi) |
The
Dead Sea (see
also Salt production at the
Dead Sea ) |
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pat
bamelah
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bread
in salt |
a
poor meal |
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brit-melah
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"It shall be an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord
for you and for your offspring as well." (Numbers
18:19) |
eternal
covenant (see
also A covenant of salt) |
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n'tziv
melah
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"Lot's
wife looked back, and she thereupon turned into a pillar of salt."
(Genesis
19:26) |
column
of salt (Lot's
wife speaks in The Salt of My Bones) |
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melah
s'domit
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Salt
mined from the area of Sodom, south-west of the Dead Sea |
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zara
adamah melah
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Avimeleh
fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and massacred
the people in it; he razed the town and sowed it with salt.
(Judges 9:45) |
destroyed
a place and made uninhabitable (more
on Salt as blessing and curse) |
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melah
mamon ha'seir (heser)
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"Wealth
has no salt." (Talmud,
Ketubot 66b) |
Wealth
cannot be preserved. |