מְלֵחָה

me.le.chah · saltiness

Hebrew · Strong's H4420 · Noun · Sounds like: mel-ay-khaw' · 3 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from מָלַח (in its denominative sense); understood as land (אֶרֶץ); properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert; barren land(-ness), salt (land).

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מְלֵחָה n.f. saltness, barrenness

Every occurrence

  1. Job 39:6 מְלֵֽחָה׃ me.Le.chah · A person, place or thing

    Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

  2. Psalms 107:34 לִמְלֵחָ֑ה lim.le.Chah · A person, place or thing

    A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

  3. Jeremiah 17:6 מְלֵחָ֖ה me.le.Chah · A person, place or thing

    For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

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