Lexicon malqowach: booty Original Word: מַלְק֫וֹחַPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: malqowach Phonetic Spelling: (mal-ko'-akh) Short Definition: booty Brown-Driver-Briggs   I.  מַלְקוֺחַ  noun masculineIsaiah 49:25 booty, prey (compare  לָקַח 9); — ׳הֲיֻקַּח מִגִּבּוֺר מ Isaiah 49:24 ("" שְׁבִי), compare Isaiah 49:25 ("" id.); Numbers 31:26 ("" id.), Numbers 31:11 ("" שָׁלָל), Numbers 31:12 ("" id. + שְׁבִי, i.e. here, only, distinguished from captives), Numbers 31:32 ("" יֶתֶר הַבָּ֔ז), Numbers 31:27.    II. [מַלְקוֺחַ]  noun [masculine] jaw (as taking, seizing food); — dual suffix וּלְשׁוֺנִי מֻדְבָּק מַלְקוֺחָ֑י Psalm 22:16 and my tongue is made to cleave to my jaws, i.e. my gums. 
 
 
 
  Strong's booty, jaws, prey  From laqach; transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil (and captives) (as taken) -- booty, jaws, prey.  see HEBREW laqach   |  
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