mug (to melt) · Rightly

Meaning

To melt, cause to melt(Qal) · (Niphal) to melt away · (Polel) to soften, dissolve, dissipate · (Hithpolel) to melt, flow

How it's translated

they have melted away 3
it melted 2
it melted away 1
and you dissolve me 1
you soften it 1
melting away 1
melt away 1
and you have melted us 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Psalms 4
Joshua 2
Isaiah 2
Amos 2
Nahum 2
Exodus 1

10 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Joshua 2:9And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
Joshua 2:24And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
1 Samuel 14:16And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.
Job 30:22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
Psalms 46:6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Psalms 65:10Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

All 17 verses, by book

Exodus 1: 15:15
Joshua 2: 2:9 2:24
1 Samuel 1: 14:16
Job 1: 30:22
Psalms 4: 46:6 65:10 75:3 107:26
Isaiah 2: 14:31 64:7
Jeremiah 1: 49:23
Ezekiel 1: 21:15
Amos 2: 9:5 9:13
Nahum 2: 1:5 2:6

Hebrew dictionary

מוּג mug · to melt

1) to melt, cause to melt 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to melt, faint 1a2) to cause to melt 1b) (Niphal) to melt away 1c) (Polel) to soften, dissolve, dissipate 1d) (Hithpolel) to melt, flow

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “melt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MELT, verb transitive

[Eng.smelt, smalt. We have in these words decisive evidence that s, in smelten, etc. is a prefix. melt in English, is regular, forming melted for its past tense and passive participle. The old participle molten, is used only as an adjective.]

To dissolve; to make liquid; to liquefy; to reduce from a solid to a liquid or flowing state by heat; as, to melt wax, tallow or lead; to melt ice or snow.
To dissolve; to reduce to first principles.
To soften to love or tenderness.
To waste away; to dissipate.

All definitions and other forms of “melt”

To dishearten. Joshua 14:8

MELT, verb intransitive

To become liquid; to dissolve; to be changed from a fixed or solid to a flowing state.

To be softened to love, pity, tenderness or sympathy; to become tender, mild or gentle.
To be dissolved; to lose substance.
To be subdued by affliction; to sink into weakness.“My soul melteth for heaviness--strengthen thou me” Psalms 119:28
To faint; to be discouraged or disheartened.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.