מְלֵחָהmᵉlêchâh

saltness, barrenness (Job 39:6; Jeremiah 17:6; Psalms 107:34)

Pronunciation: mel-ay-khaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4420

Same root

מָלַחmâlach · H4414properly, to rub to pieces or pulverize; intransitively, to disappear as dust; to salt whether internally (to season with salt) or externally (to rub with salt)
אֶרֶץʼerets · H776the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

Job 39:6 I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.
Psalms 107:34 He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.
Jeremiah 17:6 They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).