Saltwortsaltwort, a plant of the genus Salsola. In biblical terminology it was formerly translated as ‘mallow’ (for instance, in Job 30:4). It represents poor food sought in desperation.
SALT-WORT<solt’-wurt> ([מַלּוּחַ, malluach], a word connected with melach, “salt,” translated [ἅλιμος, halimos]; the King James Version, mallows): The halimos of the Greeks is the sea orache, Atriplex halimus, a silvery whitish shrub which flourishes upon the shores of the Dead Sea alongside the
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SALT-WORT, sôlt′wûrt (מַלּוּחַ, mallūaḥ, a word connected with melaḥ, “salt,” trd in LXX ἅλιμος,hálimos; AV mallows): The halimos of the Greeks is the sea orache, A triplex halimos, a silvery whitish shrub which flourishes upon the shores of the Dead Sea alongside the rutm (see Juniper). Its leaves