ir ham.me.lach is used as the name of a city in Joshua’s list of places.

The attested use is a place name: in Joshua 15:62 it occurs within a list of cities and their villages.

1. A city named in a territorial list · dominant

   In Joshua 15:62, the masculine singular absolute noun occurs among place names in a list of cities; the APB renders the list, “Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi—six cities with their villages.”

   Joshua 15:62

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Joshua 15:62, the APB presents the term within the place-name list as “the City of Salt.” This rendering is treated as confirmation of the verse’s place-name context.