Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4420
מְלֵחָה
melechahmel-ay-khaw'
saltiness
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉlêchâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4420is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4420
properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert
The King James renders it: barren land(-ness), salt (land).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
melechah is rendered "saltiness". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 39:6I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Job 39:6מְלֵֽחָה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- saltiness2
- into saltiness1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְלֵאָה | meleah | fruit | Uses3 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לִמְלֵחָ֑ה1
- מְלֵחָ֖ה1
- מְלֵֽחָה׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Job
one use
I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
- מְלֵֽחָה׃melechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: saltiness
Psalms
one use
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- לִמְלֵחָ֑הlimlechahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into saltiness
Jeremiah
one use
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.
- מְלֵחָ֖הmelechahnoun · feminine singulartagged: saltiness
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.