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# מָלַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4452

**be smooth** — 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

be smooth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4452/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָלַץ: vb. be smooth, slippery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4452/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. prob. be smooth, slippery (Arabic مَلِصَ slip);— Pf. מַה־נִּמְלְצוּ לְחִכִּי אִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ ψ 119:103 how smooth (agreeable, pleasant) are thy words to my palate (‖ מִדְּבַשׁ לְפִי).

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:103](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.103/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.103/#tree)

מַה־נִּמְלְצ֣וּ לְ֭חִכִּי אִמְרָתֶ֗ךָ מִדְּבַ֥שׁ לְפִֽי׃

*Word for word:* how! they.are.smooth to palate my word your more than.honey to mouth my

*JPS 1917:* How sweet are Thy words unto my palate! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4452.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4452/): 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).