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# מָלַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4454

**nip** — used 2 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

nip [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4454/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָלַק: vb. nip, nip off [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4454/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. nip, nip off (head of bird; without necessarily severing it from body, cf. Lv 5:8) (NH id., Aramaic מְלַק, ܡܠܰܓ );— Pf. consec. וּמָלַק אֶת־רֹאשׁוֹ Lv 1:15, i.e. head of dove; cf. וּמָלֵק אֶת־רֹאשׁוֹ מִמּוּל עָרְפּוֹ וְלֹא יַבְדִּיל Lv 5:8. Cf. Di-Ry 𝔊 ἀποκνίζω.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 2 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: he will nip off (2).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.1.15/#tree)

וְהִקְרִיב֤וֹ הַכֹּהֵן֙ אֶל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ וּמָלַק֙ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וְהִקְטִ֖יר הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חָה וְנִמְצָ֣ה דָמ֔וֹ עַ֖ל קִ֥יר הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* and he will.present.it the priest to the altar and he.will.nip.off (et) head its and he.will.make.\[it\].smoke to the altar and it.will.be.drained.out blood its on the.side of the.altar

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and pinch off its head, and make it smoke on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the side of the altar.

[Leviticus 5:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.5.8/#tree)

וְהֵבִ֤יא אֹתָם֙ אֶל־הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְהִקְרִ֛יב אֶת־אֲשֶׁ֥ר לַחַטָּ֖את רִאשׁוֹנָ֑ה וּמָלַ֧ק אֶת־רֹאשׁ֛וֹ מִמּ֥וּל עָרְפּ֖וֹ וְלֹ֥א יַבְדִּֽיל׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.bring them to the priest and he.will.present (et) \[the.one\].which \[is\].for the.sin offering first and he.will.nip.off (et) head its from in.front.of neck its and not he.will.separate.\[it\]

*JPS 1917:* And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and pinch off its head close by its neck, but shall not divide it asunder.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4454.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4454/): 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).