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# מַלְכֹּדֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4434

**a catching instrument** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a catching instrument [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4434/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלְכֹּ֫דֶת: n.f. catching instrument snare, trap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4434/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a catching instrument, i. e. a snare, trap, only fig.; sf. מַלְכֻּדְתּוֹ עֲלֵי נָתִיב Jb 18:10 of the wicked (‖ טָמוּן בָּאָרֶץ חַבְלוֹ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: trap (1).

## In the verses

[Job 18:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.10/#tree)

טָמ֣וּן בָּאָ֣רֶץ חַבְל֑וֹ וּ֝מַלְכֻּדְתּ֗וֹ עֲלֵ֣י נָתִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].hidden on the ground rope his and trap his on \[the\].path

*JPS 1917:* A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4434.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4434/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).