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Lexicon :: Strong's H4455 - malqôaḥ

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מַלְקוֹחַ
Transliteration
malqôaḥ
Pronunciation
mal-ko'-akh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1124b,1124c

Strong’s Definitions

מַלְקוֹחַ malqôwach, mal-ko'-akh; from H3947; transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil [and captives] (as taken):—booty, jaws, prey.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H4455 in the following manner: prey (6x), booty (1x), jaw (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H4455 in the following manner: prey (6x), booty (1x), jaw (1x).

  1. booty, prey

  2. jaw

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַלְקוֹחַ malqôwach, mal-ko'-akh; from H3947; transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil [and captives] (as taken):—booty, jaws, prey.
STRONGS H4455: Abbreviations
† I. מַלְקוֺחַ noun masculineIsaiah 49:25 booty, prey (compare לָקַח 9); — הֲיֻקַּח מִגִּבּוֺר מ׳ Isaiah 49:24 (|| שְׁבִי), compare Isaiah 49:25 (|| id.); Numbers 31:26 (|| id.), Numbers 31:11 (|| שָׁלָל), Numbers 31:12 (|| id. + שְׁבִי, i.e. here, only, distinguished from captives), Numbers 31:32 (|| יֶתֶר הַבָּ֔ז), Numbers 31:27.

† II. [מַלְקוֺחַ] noun [masculine] jaw (as taking, seizing food); — dual suffix וּלְשׁוֺנִי מֻדְבָּק מַלְקוֺחָ֑י Psalm 22:16 and my tongue is made to cleave to my jaws, i.e. my gums.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

31:11; 31:12; 31:26; 31:27; 31:32

Psalms

22:16

Isaiah

49:24; 49:25; 49:25

H4455

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4455 matches the Hebrew מַלְקוֹחַ (malqôaḥ),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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and took away all the spoils of war and the captives, both people and animals.

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They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

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“You, the priest Eleazar, and the family heads of the community are to take a count of what was captured, people and animals.

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“Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to war and the entire community.

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The captives remaining from the plunder the army had taken totaled:

675,000 sheep and goats,

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My strength is dried up like baked clay;

my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.

You put me into the dust of death.

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Can the prey be taken from a mighty man,

or the captives of a tyrant[fn] be delivered?

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For this is what the LORD says:

“Even the captives of a mighty man will be taken,

and the prey of a tyrant will be delivered;

I will contend with the one who contends with you,

and I will save your children.

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