Lexicon melechah: saltiness, barrenness Original Word: מְלֵחָהPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: melechah Phonetic Spelling: (mel-ay-khaw') Short Definition: salt NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as melachDefinitionsaltiness, barrenness NASB Translationsalt (1), salt land (1), salt waste (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מְלֵחָה noun feminine saltness, barrenness; — Job 39:6 ("" עֲרָבָה) as dwelling-place of wild ass, salt-plain; אֶרֶץ מְלֵחָה Jeremiah 17:6 ("" לֹא תֵשֵׁב); Psalm 107:34 (opposed to אֶרֶץ מְּרִי). Strong's barren land, salt land 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 |
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