H4455 - מַלְקוֹחַ (malqôwach)

H4455 מַלְקוֹחַ (malqôwach) mal-ko'-akh

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil (and captives) (as taken)

Derivation: from H3947 (לָקַח);

KJV Usage: booty, jaws, prey.

TWOT Reference: 1124b,c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) booty, prey

2) jaw

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2995 G4661

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַלְקוֹחַ malqôach BDB Definition: 1) booty, prey 2) jaw Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3947 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1124b, 1124c Total KJV Occurrences: 8

Bible Occurrences (8)

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

22:15

49:24 49:25

Numbers 31:11

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

Numbers 31:12

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation... of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab -, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Numbers 31:26

You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured..., [both] of man and beast.

Numbers 31:27

Then divide the captives between the troops... who went out to battle... and the rest of the congregation.

Numbers 31:32

[and] this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers... had taken: 675,000 {}.................. sheep,

Isaiah 49:24

Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?

Isaiah 49:25

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.