Strong’s
H4420Noun, feminine3 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Job 39:6מְלֵחָה
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
- Psalm 107:34לִמְלֵחָה
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Jeremiah 17:6מְלֵחָה
He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
מְלֵחָה n.f. saltness, barrenness
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.