melechah
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melechah: saltiness, barrenness
Original Word: מְלֵחָה
Transliteration: melechah
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-ay-khaw')
Short Definition: salt

Word Origin
from the same as melach
Definition
saltiness, barrenness
NASB Word Usage
salt (1), salt land (1), salt waste (1).

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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

lə·me·laḥ — 1 Occ.
me·laḥ — 14 Occ.
wā·me·laḥ — 1 Occ.
mə·lā·ḥîm — 1 Occ.
wə·ham·mə·lā·ḥîm — 1 Occ.
ham·mal·lā·ḥîm — 1 Occ.
mal·lā·ḥa·yiḵ — 1 Occ.
mal·lā·ḥîm — 1 Occ.
ū·mal·lā·ḥê·hem — 1 Occ.
lim·lê·ḥāh — 1 Occ.
‘al- — 1 Occ.
bam·mil·ḥā·māh — 32 Occ.
ham·mil·ḥā·māh — 69 Occ.
ham·mil·ḥā·mō·wṯ — 1 Occ.
kam·mil·ḥā·māh — 1 Occ.
lam·mil·ḥā·māh — 68 Occ.
lə·mil·ḥā·māh — 2 Occ.
mil·ḥā·māh — 92 Occ.
mil·ḥă·mōṯ — 12 Occ.
mil·ḥă·mō·ṯāw — 1 Occ.


Strong's Hebrew 4420
3 Occurrences


lim·lê·ḥāh — 1 Occ.
mə·lê·ḥāh — 2 Occ.

Job 39:6
BIB: 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
BIB: 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
BIB: 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

3 Occurrences


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