H4420 מְלֵחָה

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 3 KJV occurrences

מְלֵחָה

mᵉlêchâh · mel-ay-khaw'

Definition

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

KJV Renderings

barren land(-ness), salt (land).

Derivation / Etymology

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

KJV Verses (3)

Job 39:6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6For 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.