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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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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26 - “You and Eleazar the priest and the family leaders of each tribe are to make a list of all the plunder taken in the battle, including the people and animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:27 - Then divide the plunder into two parts, and give half to the men who fought the battle and half to the rest of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 - The plunder remaining from everything the fighting men had taken totaled 675,000 sheep and goats,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:24 - Who can snatch the plunder of war from the hands of a warrior?
Who can demand that a tyrant[fn] let his captives go?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:25 - But the LORD says,
“The captives of warriors will be released,
and the plunder of tyrants will be retrieved.
For I will fight those who fight you,
and I will save your children.
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