HebrewH4420Noun (Feminine)

מְלֵחָה

me.le.chah

3Occurrences
H4420Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

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

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
saltness, barrenness, saltiness

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

מְלֵחָה appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
1
Job
1
Psalms
1

Key Passages

Jeremiah 17:6BSB

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.

Job 39:6BSB

I made the wilderness his homeand the salt flats his dwelling.

Psalms 107:34BSB

and fruitful land into fields of salt,because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

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