malkoach · plunder, prey

What it means

malkoach (מַלְקוֹחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plunder, prey”.

What is taken in war, both captives and animals.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is seized in war: people and animals.
2. The palate, the roof of the mouth.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• plunder ×5
• prey ×2
• palate ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×5
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2

• Numbers 31:11

  They took all the spoil and all the plunder, of people and of animals,

• Numbers 31:12

  and they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the community of the sons of Israel the captives, the plunder, and the spoil, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

• Numbers 31:26

  “Take the count of the plunder of the captives, of people and of animals, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the community.

• Numbers 31:27

  And you shall divide in half the plunder between those who took up the war, who went out to the army, and between the whole community.

• Numbers 31:32

  The plunder, the rest of the booty that the people of the army had looted, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

• Psalms 22:15

  My strength has dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my palate; and in the dust of death you lay me.

• Isaiah 49:24

  Can the prey be taken from the mighty one, or the captives of the righteous be rescued?

• Isaiah 49:25

  For thus says YHWH: “Even the captives of the mighty one will be taken, and the prey of the tyrant will be rescued; and with the one who contends with you I will contend, and your children I will save.