Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4420 - מְלֵחָה melechah (saltiness)

Original Word:	מְלֵחָה
Transliteration:	melechah
Definition:	saltiness, barrenness
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(mel-ay-khaw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

barren land, salt land

From malach (in its denominative sense); properly, salted (i.e. Land ('erets being understood)), i.e. A desert -- barren land(-ness), salt (land).

see HEBREW malach

see HEBREW 'erets

Englishman's Concordance

1) saltness, barrenness, saltiness
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H4414 (in its denominative sense)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1197b

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְלֵחָהnoun femininesaltness, barrenness; — Job 39:6 ("" עֲרָבָה) as dwelling-place of wild ass, salt-plain; אֶרֶץ מְלֵחָהJeremiah 17:6 ("" לֹא תֵשֵׁב); Psalm 107:34 (opposed to אֶרֶץ מְּרִי).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4420. מְלֵחָה (melechah) — 3 Occurrences

Job 39:6
HEB:בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃
NAS: for a home And the salt land for his dwelling place?
KJV: the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
INT: A home his dwelling and the salt

Psalm 107:34
HEB:אֶ֣רֶץ פְּ֭רִי לִמְלֵחָ֑ה מֵ֝רָעַ֗ת יֹ֣שְׁבֵי
NAS: land into a salt waste, Because
KJV: land into barrenness, for the wickedness
INT: land A fruitful A salt the wickedness dwell

Jeremiah 17:6
HEB:בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר אֶ֥רֶץ מְלֵחָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א תֵשֵֽׁב׃
NAS: A land of salt without
KJV: in the wilderness, [in] a salt land
INT: the wilderness A land of salt without inhabitant

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