מְלַח mᵉlach — to eat salt, i.e. (generally) subsist
Translated in the KJV as have maintenance.
(Aramaic) corresponding to H4414; to eat salt, i.e. (generally) subsist.
mᵉlach in each stem
Pe'al
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
מְלַ֔חְנָא Ezra 4:14 Perfect (qatal), 1st person common plural
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 certified the king;
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›