# מְלַח (melach)

Israeli respelling: me-lach. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4415. 1 Old Testament occurrences.

to eat salt, i.e. (generally) subsist

King James renderings: [phrase] have maintenance.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/melach-h4415

## Occurrences

- [Ezra 4:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/4/14) — Now because we have maintenance from the king’s palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore have we sent and…