Strong’s H4418 · Hebrew
מָלָח
mâlâch · maw-lawkh'
Origin from מָלַח (H4414) in its original sense;
Meaning a rag or old garment
In the King James Version rotten rag.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Jeremiah 38:11So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 38:12And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.