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# מַלְקוֹחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4455

**booty** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

booty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4455/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלְקוֹחַ: n.m. booty, prey [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4455/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 49:25 booty, prey (cf. לָקַח 9);—הֲיֻקַּח מִגִּבּוֹר מ׳ Is 49:24 (‖ שְׁבִי), cf. v 25 (‖ id.); Nu 31:26 (‖ id.), 31:11 (‖ שָׁלָל), v 12 (‖ id. + שְׁבִי, i.e. here, only, disting. from captives), v 32 (‖ יֶתֶר הַבָּ֔ז), v 27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: booty (6); of the booty (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 49:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.24/#tree)

הֲיֻקַּ֥ח מִגִּבּ֖וֹר מַלְק֑וֹחַ וְאִם־שְׁבִ֥י צַדִּ֖יק יִמָּלֵֽט׃

*Word for word:* will it.be.taken? from a.warrior booty and or? \[the\].captive\[s\] of.\[the\].righteous will.it.escape

*JPS 1917:* Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of the victorious be delivered?

[Numbers 31:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.11/#tree)

וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת־כָּל־הַשָּׁלָ֔ל וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־הַמַּלְק֑וֹחַ בָּאָדָ֖ם וּבַבְּהֵמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) all the plunder and (et) all the booty among (the) humankind and among the livestock

*JPS 1917:* And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4455.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4455/): 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).