Prey
מַלְקוֹחַStrong’s H4455malqoach (mal-qo-ach)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Malqoach is the Hebrew word usually translated “booty”, “booty of” and “jaws my”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.”
Meaning
- Booty, prey
- Jaw
How it's translated
- the booty 4
- booty of 1
- jaws my 1
- booty 1
- and booty of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 5
- Isaiah 2
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 31:12And 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.
- Numbers 31:26Take 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:
- Numbers 31:27And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
- Numbers 31:32And 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,
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- Isaiah 49:24Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
Hebrew dictionary
מַלְקוֹחַ malqoach · prey
booty, prey
מַלְקוֹחַ malqoach · jaw
jaw
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prey” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PREY, noun
[Latin proeda.]
- Spoil; booty; plunder; goods taken by force from an enemy in war.“And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the priest” Numbers 31:12“They [Judah] shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies” 2 Kings 21:14
- That which is seized or may be seized by violence to be devoured; ravine.“The old lion perisheth for lack of prey” Job 4:11
- Ravage; depredation.
All definitions and other forms of “prey”
PREY, verb intransitive
To prey on or upon, is to rob; to plunder; to pillage.
- To feed by violence, or to seize and devour.
- To corrode; to waste gradually; to cause to pine away.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.