mikh.reh denotes a salt pit or salt-associated place in Zephaniah’s image of lasting devastation.

The sole attested use places mikh.reh in a description of territory becoming a salt-associated site amid enduring devastation.

1. Salt-associated site of devastation · dominant

   In Zephaniah 2:9, the construct masculine singular form occurs in the clause describing Moab and the sons of Ammon as becoming a possession of nettle, a salt pit, and devastation forever; the APB renders the clause “a possession of nettle and a pit of salt and devastation forever.”

   Zephaniah 2:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Zephaniah 2:9, the APB presents the surrounding clause as “a pit of salt” within an image of permanent devastation. Its precise correspondence to the lemma cannot be isolated with certainty.