Salt-Wort
Salt-Wort
soltwurt (, malluah, a word connected with melah, salt, translated , 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 rutm (see JUNIPER). Its leaves are oval and somewhat like those of an olive. They have a sour flavor and would never be eaten when better food was obtainable (Job 30:4). The translation mallows is due to the apparent similarity of the Hebrew malluah to the Greek , malache, which is the Latin malva and English mallow. Certain species of malva known in Arabic, as khubbazeh, are very commonly eaten by the poor of Palestine.