Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
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מְלֵחָה
H4420 · mᵉlêchâh · mel-ay-khaw' · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
properly, salted (i.e. land), i.e. a desert
KJV usage
barren land(-ness), salt (land).
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Mapped occurrences
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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.