Malqoach מַלְקוֹחַ

Malqoach (Hebrew מַלְקוֹחַ, Strong's H4455) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “prey”. It occurs 8 times in 8 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H4455A: prey

H4455B: jaw

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Malqoach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Numbers

• Numbers 31:11
  And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.
• Numbers 31:12
  And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
• Numbers 31:26
  Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.
• Numbers 31:27
  And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.
• Numbers 31:32
  And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,

Psalms

• Psalm 22:15
  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 49:24
  Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
• Isaiah 49:25
  But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).