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# מַלְקֹחַיִם

Biblical Hebrew

**tongs** — 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

tongs [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5e7_5b9_5d7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dd/#m1)

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 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: jaws (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 22:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.16/#tree)

יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ ׀ כֹּחִ֗י וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִימֻדְבָּ֣ק מַלְקוֹחָ֑י וְֽלַעֲפַר־מָ֥וֶת תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* it.has.dried.up like (the) earthenware strength my and tongue my \[has.been\].made.to.cling.to jaws my and to.\[the\] dust of.death you put.me

*JPS 1917:* My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my throat; and Thou layest me in the dust of death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5e7_5b9_5d7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5e7_5b9_5d7_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dd/): 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).