מְלֵחָה
me.le.chah
“saltiness”
Definition
properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert
from H4414 (מָלַח) (in its denominative sense); understood as land (H776 (אֶרֶץ))
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
מְלֵחָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.
I made the wilderness his homeand the salt flats his dwelling.
and fruitful land into fields of salt,because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.