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soÌ‚lt´wuÌ‚rt (מלּוּח, malluÌ„ahÌ£, a word connected with melahÌ£, “salt,†translated ἀÌλιμος, haÌlimos; 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 (). The translation “mallows†is due to the apparent similarity of the Hebrew malluÌ„ahÌ£ to the Greek μαλαÌχη, malaÌcheÌ„, which is the Latin malva and English “mallow.†Certain species of malva known in Arabic, as khubbaÌ„zeh, are very commonly eaten by the poor of Palestine.