מְלַחmᵉlach/mel-akh'/
HebrewH44151 occurrences (KJV)
to eat salt, i.e. (generally) subsist
KJV renders it: [phrase] have maintenance.
Where it appears
- Ezra 4:14Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.