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title: מַלְקוֹחַ — booty · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַלְקוֹחַ (4455), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: booty. BDB 1906: n.m. booty, prey. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַלְקוֹחַ

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«מַלְקוֹחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **booty** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 4455 · **BDB:** מַלְקוֹחַ

### Glosses

booty (6); of.the.booty (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַלְקוֹחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4455/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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?

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

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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.

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