Strong’s H4420 · Hebrew
מְלֵחָה
mᵉlêchâh · mel-ay-khaw'
Origin from מָלַח (H4414) (in its denominative sense); understood as land (אֶרֶץ (H776))
Meaning properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert
In the King James Version barren land(-ness), salt (land).
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.