# מְלֵחָה (melechah)

Israeli respelling: me-le-chah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4420. 3 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: barren land(-ness), salt (land).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/melechah-h4420

## Occurrences

- [Job 39:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/39/6) — Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
- [Psalms 107:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/34) — A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
- [Jeremiah 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, i…