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me.le.chah H4420

מְלֵחָה (me.le.chah) means “saltiness” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מְלֵחָה Hebrew · H4420 3 tagged occurrences in 3 verses

Pronunciation guide: mel-ay-khaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4420

מְלֵחָה · me.le.chah · saltiness

saltness, barrenness, saltiness

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H4414 (מָלַח) (in its denominative sense); understood as land (H776 (אֶרֶץ)) properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert

KJV glosses: barren land(-ness), salt (land).

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How translators render H4420

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
and the salt flats 1
in a salt 1
into fields of salt 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
a salt 1
and the barren 1
into barrenness 1

Verses containing H4420

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  1. Job 39:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

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  2. Psalms 107:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

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  3. Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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Sources and text

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