saltiness
me.le.chah denotes the salty condition or salt-affected setting of land and habitation in the cited passages.
The term describes a salty condition associated with land or habitation: a wilderness dwelling in Job 39:6, a land where no one dwells in Jeremiah 17:6, and a fruitful land turned into such a condition in Psalm 107:34.
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Salt-affected land or dwelling place · dominant
In Job 39:6, the singular absolute noun occurs in the clause about a house and tabernacles, and the APB renders the setting "in the saltiness." In Jeremiah 17:6, it describes a land where no one dwells; in Psalm 107:34, it is the condition into which a fruitful land is turned.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "saltiness" in Job 39:6 and Psalm 107:34, while Jeremiah 17:6 renders the larger phrase as "a land of salt." These renderings present the verse contexts rather than a fixed English equivalent.