mug · melt

What it means

mug (מוּג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “melt”.

Lose courage, lose heart.

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. To dissolve or soften, like the ground with rain or the earth before YHWH.
2. To lose courage from fear, to be left without strength.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• melt ×7
• melted away ×4
• melts ×3
• have melted us ×1
• was melting away ×1
• you soften it ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Joshua×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×2
• Nahum×2

• Exodus 15:15

  Then the chieftains of Edom were dismayed; the mighty of Moab, trembling seized them; all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.

• Joshua 2:9

  and she said to the men, “I know that YHWH has given you the land, and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you.

• Joshua 2:24

  And they said to Joshua, “YHWH has given into our hand all the land; and also all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before us.”

• 1 Samuel 14:16

  The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and look, the multitude was melting away and going this way and that.

• Job 30:22

  You lift me up to the wind, you make me ride it, and you melt away my success.

• Psalms 46:6

  Nations roared, kingdoms were moved; he gave his voice, the earth melts.

• Psalms 65:10

  Its furrows you drench, you level its clods; with downpours you soften it; its sprouts you bless.

• Psalms 75:3

  The earth and all its inhabitants melt; I have set firm its pillars. Selah.

• Psalms 107:26

  They went up to the heavens, they went down to the depths; their soul in trouble melted away.

• Isaiah 14:31

  Wail, gate! Cry out, city! Melt away, Philistia, all of you! For from the north smoke is coming, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

• Isaiah 64:7

  And there is no one who calls on your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have melted us by the hand of our iniquities.

• Jeremiah 49:23

  Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad, for a bad report they have heard; they melt away; in the sea there is anxiety; it cannot be quiet.

• Ezekiel 21:15

  so that the heart may melt and the stumbling blocks may multiply; against all their gates I have set the brandishing of the sword. Ah! It is made for lightning, honed for slaughter.

• Amos 9:5

  And Adonai YHWH Tsevaot is the one who touches the earth, and it melts, and all who live in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks like the Nile of Egypt;

• Amos 9:13

  Look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when the plowman will overtake the reaper, and the one who treads grapes the one who scatters the seed; and the mountains will drip sweet wine, and all the hills will melt.

• Nahum 1:5

  The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt; and the earth heaves at his presence, and the world and all who dwell in it.

• Nahum 2:6

  The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melts.