מְלֵחָה mᵉlêchâh

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: barren land(-ness), salt (land).

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

Where it is used

• Job 39:6 I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
• Psalms 107:34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
• Jeremiah 17:6 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.