Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
KJV Usage: consume, dissolve, (be) faint(-hearted), melt (away), make soft
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מוּג (mug) — to melt. 1) to melt, cause to melt 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to melt, faint 1a2) to cause to melt 1b) (Niphal) to melt away 1c) (Polel) to soften, dissolve, dissipate 1d) (Hithpolel) to melt, flow
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Soft | verb qal, verb nif, verb hit
to melt = process by which a relatively hard object becomes softer
Soft | verb pi
to make soft = causative process by which a relatively hard object is made softer
Afraid | verb qal
Collocation: לֵב מוג
to lose courage literally: (one's heart) melts; hence: = process by which people are strongly affected by fear
Afraid | verb hit
Collocation: נֶפֶשׁ מוג
to lose courage literally: (one's self) melts; hence: = process by which people are strongly affected by fear
Afraid | verb nif
to lose courage literally: to melt; hence: = process by which people are strongly affected by fear
Afraid | verb qal, verb pi
to make (someone) lose courage literally: to cause to melt; hence: = causative process by which deities cause humans to be strongly affected by fear
Impact
to crumble, to collapse literally: to melt; hence: = process by which a relatively hard object becomes soft and collapses
Scatter | verb nif
to disperse literally: (a multitude) melts away; hence: = process by which a group of people gradually disperses
1 NAM 2:7 RSV "is in dismay" GNT "is filled with terror" = [1e]
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מוּג vb. melt Qal melt
trans. cause to melt
Niph. melt away, fig. for be helpless, disorganized
Po‛l. soften, dissolve
Po‛. Hithpo‛l. mely; hyperb. for flow
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