Definition

properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt)

Etymology

a primitive root; also as denominative from H4417 (מֶלַח)

Where the KJV renders it

• at all
• salt
• season
• temper together
• vanish away

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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