# H4455 מַלְקוֹחַ

מַלְקוֹחַ (malqôwach), Strong’s H4455: transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil (and captives) (as taken) KJV: booty, jaws, prey.. Occurs 8 times.

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*malqôwach* — transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil (and captives) (as taken)

KJV: booty, jaws, prey.

Derived from [לָקַח lâqach](https://besorah.bible/word/H3947) (to take)

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַלְקוֹחַ n.m. booty, prey
- מַלְקוֹחַ n.[m.]
- [מַלְקוֹחַ] n.[m.] jaw (as taking, seizing food);—ψ 22:16

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 31:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=11) — They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.
- [Numbers 31:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=12) — They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation…
- [Numbers 31:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=26) — “Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the…
- [Numbers 31:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=27) — and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
- [Numbers 31:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/31?v=32) — Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
- [Isaiah 49:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/49?v=24) — Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
- [Isaiah 49:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/49?v=25) — But the LORD says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for…
- [Psalms 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/22?v=16) — My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of…