chal.la.mut denotes a food item invoked in Job’s question about tasteless eating.

Its sole attested use places the noun in a question about food eaten without salt and the absence of taste.

1. Food in a comparison about lack of taste · dominant

   In Job 6:6, the feminine singular absolute noun occurs in a question contrasting food without salt with another food-related comparison. The APB renders the verse, “Can tasteless food be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg?”; Its precise English equivalent for the noun is not certain.

   Job 6:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Job 6:6, the APB presents the clause as a question about “tasteless food” and salt, followed by “the white of an egg.” It does not securely isolate the noun’s specific English rendering.