מַלְקוֹחַmalqôwach

מַלְקוֺחַ: booty, prey, (compare לָקַח 9) (Isaiah 49:25; Isaiah 49:24; Numbers 31:26; Numbers 31:11; Numbers 31:12)

Pronunciation: mal-ko'-akh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4455

Meanings

מַלְקוֺחַ: jaw, (as taking, seizing food) (Psalms 22:16)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 31:11 After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals,
  • Numbers 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.
  • Numbers 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.
  • Numbers 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.
  • Numbers 31:32 The plunder remaining from everything the fighting men had taken totaled 675,000 sheep and goats,
  • Psalms 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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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).