H4420 Hebrew

מְלֵחָה

mᵉlêchâh (mel-ay-khaw')

properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert

KJV Translations of H4420

barren land(-ness), salt (land).

Word Origin & Derivation

from H4414 (מָלַח) (in its denominative sense); understood as land (H776 (אֶרֶץ))

H4420 in the King James Bible

3 verses

Jeremiah 17:6 מְלֵחָ֖ה

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.

Job 39:6 מְלֵֽחָה׃

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Psalms 107:34 לִמְלֵחָ֑ה

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.