מְלֵחָה
melecha · salt land
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4420 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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melecha (מְלֵחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “salt land”.
Salty, barren land.
How to say it
me·le·cha
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Ground so salty that nothing grows and no one can live there.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- salt land ×2
- salt ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 39:6
to whom I gave the steppe as his home, and as his dwellings the salt land.
- Psalms 107:34
a fruitful land into salt land, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Jeremiah 17:6
And he will be like a shrub in the steppe, and he will not see when good comes; and he will dwell in parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and uninhabited.