me.lu.nah denotes a small shelter or lodge, pictured in comparisons to a field hut and a swaying structure.

The two occurrences use the noun for a small shelter or lodge in comparison images: Zion is likened to one in a cultivated field, and the earth is said to sway like one.

1. Small shelter in comparative imagery · dominant

   In Isaiah 1:8, the feminine singular absolute form occurs in a comparison in which the daughter of Zion remains like a booth in a vineyard; the APB renders the parallel image "like a lodge in a cucumber field." In Isaiah 24:20, the same morphology occurs in the comparison of the earth's staggering and swaying; the APB renders the image "like a hut."

   Isaiah 1:8Isaiah 24:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the comparison with "a lodge" in Isaiah 1:8 and "a hut" in Isaiah 24:20. These renderings confirm the verses' shelter imagery without establishing a finer distinction.