Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4420: מְלֵחָה

mᵉlêchâh · pronounced mel-ay-khaw' · “saltiness”

Definition

properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert

KJV translates it as: barren land(-ness), salt (land).

Word origin: from H4414 (מָלַח) (in its denominative sense); understood as land (H776 (אֶרֶץ))

Extended definition

saltness, barrenness, saltiness

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4420 is translated

  • saltiness ×2
  • the saltiness ×1

Bible verses with H4420 (mᵉlêchâh)

Mᵉlêchâh appears in 3 verses.

  • Job 39:6

    Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

  • Psalms 107:34

    A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

  • Jeremiah 17:6

    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, in a salt land and not inhabited.