4420 - melechah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: מְלֵחָה
Transliteration: melechah
Definition (short): salt
Definition (full): saltiness, barrenness

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from the same as melach
Definition: saltiness, barrenness
NASB Translation: salt (1), salt land (1), salt waste (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

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

References

Strong's 4420: 3 Occurrences
KJV: Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
NASB: To whom I gave the wilderness for a home And the salt land for his dwelling place?
KJV: A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
NASB: A fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
KJV: For 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.
NASB: "For he will be like a bush in the desert And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt without inhabitant.