Melechah מְלֵחָה
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| מְלֵחָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | melechah |
| Strong's number | H4420 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | saltiness |
| Occurrences | 3 in 3 verses |
| Most frequent in | Job (1) |
Melechah (Hebrew מְלֵחָה, Strong's H4420) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “saltiness”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
saltness, barrenness, saltiness
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | barren (1), barrenness (1), salt (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | salt flats (1), into fields of salt (1), salt (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Melechah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Job
- Job 39:6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Psalms
- Psalm 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Jeremiah
- 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.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.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).