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# מְלֵחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4420

**saltness** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

saltness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4420/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְלֵחָה: n.f. saltness, barrenness; [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4420/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. saltness, barrenness;—Jb 39:6 (‖ עֲרָבָה) as dwelling-place of wild ass, salt-plain; אֶרֶץ מְלֵחָה Je 17:6 (‖ לֹא תֵשֵׁב); ψ 107:34 (opp. אֶרֶץ פְּרִי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] saltiness (1); of saltiness (1); saltiness (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.6/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֣מְתִּי עֲרָבָ֣ה בֵית֑וֹ וּֽמִשְׁכְּנוֹתָ֥יו מְלֵֽחָה׃

*Word for word:* which I.appointed \[the\].desert.plain home its and dwelling-places its \[the\].saltiness

*JPS 1917:* Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place.

[Psalms 107:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.34/#tree)

אֶ֣רֶץ פְּ֭רִי לִמְלֵחָ֑ה מֵ֝רָעַ֗ת יֹ֣שְׁבֵי בָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* a.land of.fruit into saltiness from the.evil of.\[those.who\].dwell in it

*JPS 1917:* A fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4420.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4420/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).