# מַלְקוֹחַ (malqocha)

Israeli respelling: malqo-cha. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4455. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil (and captives) (as taken)

King James renderings: booty, jaws, prey.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/malqocha-h4455

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 31:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/11) — And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
- [Numbers 31:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 o…
- [Numbers 31:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [Numbers 31:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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:
- [Numbers 31:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Psalms 22:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/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.
- [Isaiah 49:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/24) — Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
- [Isaiah 49:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 c…