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Strong H4420מְלֵחָה

saltiness

Transliteration
melêchâh
Pronunciation
mel-ay-khaw'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From H4414 (in its denominative sense); properly salted (that {is} land (H776 being {understood)}) that {is} a desert: - barren land ({-ness}) salt [land].

Detailed definition

saltness, barrenness, saltiness

In the Bible

Strong H4420 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • barren1
  • barrenness1
  • salt1

First verses

  1. Job 39:6
    Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
  2. Psalms 107:34
    A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
  3. Jeremiah 17:6
    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.
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