מַלְכֹּדֶת
malkôdeth · H4434 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Trap, snareHunting74 verses
Meanings
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trap
Contraption; used for catching animals; associated with aggression and control
ExamplesJob 18:10 “A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the pathway.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 6 words
- מָצוֹד mâtsôwd · H4685 · prey, victim, (trammel) net
- The target term is a straightforward word for a trap, while מָצֹוד (mâtsôwd, H4685) is polysemous, covering both fortifications ('bulwark, hold, munition') and trapping devices ('net, snare'). The two overlap in the sense of trapping or snaring, even though מָצֹוד has the broader range overall.
- מָצוּד mâtsûwd · H4686 · prey, victim, (trammel) net
- מָצֹוד (mâtsûwd, H4686) is polysemous, with fortification senses (castle, fort, stronghold) and trapping senses (net, snare, hunted); its trapping sense overlaps with מַלְכֹּדֶת (malkôdeth, H4434) (“trap”), both being devices for capturing.
- פַּח pach · H6341 · trap, hammered sheets
- Both words denote physical trapping devices used to catch animals or, metaphorically, enemies; both are kinds of traps.
- מוֹקֵשׁ môwqêsh · H4170 · trap
- Both words denote physical trapping devices (snare, trap, gin), and are substitutable words for the same instrument concept.
- שַׁחַת shachath · H7845 · pit
- The target term ('trap') and שַׁחַת (shachath, H7845) both denote trap or snare devices. שַׁחַת spans multiple senses (pit, grave, destruction) but includes a sense of trap that overlaps directly with the target term.
- רֶשֶׁת resheth · H7568 · net, mesh(work)
- Both words are concrete hunting or capturing devices in the same functional category of traps, and could substitute for one another in many contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Traps001003001001018
- מַלְכֹּדֶת, occurring once in Job 18:10, names a trap or snare hidden in the path, set to catch an unwary victim.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4434. malkodeth [מַלְכֹּ֑דֶת] noun feminine a catching instrument, i.e. a snare, trap,…
[מַלְכֹּ֑דֶת] noun feminine a catching instrument, i.e. a snare, trap, only figurative; suffix נָתִיב עֲלֵי מַלְכֻּדְתּוֺ Job 18:10 of the wicked (|| חַבְלוֺ בָּאָרֶץ טָמוּן).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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