מָלַק
mâlaq · H4454 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to pinch off
Causative action by which humans remove the head of a bird by cutting through the windpipe with one's fingernail and then tearing it off (fully or partially)
ExamplesLeviticus 1:15 ‘The priest shall bring it to the altar, and pinch off its head, and offer it up in smoke on the altar; and its blood is to be drained out on the side of the altar.
Leviticus 5:8 ‘He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer that which is for the sin offering, and shall pinch off its head at the front of its neck, but he shall not sever it.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 2
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 1 word
- קָצַץ qâtsats · H7112 · to cut off, to sever, to strip
- Both words denote detachment or cutting actions, in the broader area of severing or detaching.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Detach002003001006
- מָלַק describes the priestly act of wringing off a bird's head at the neck, severing it in the prescribed manner for certain sacrificial offerings.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4454. malaq מָלַק verb nip, nip off (head of bird; without necessarily severing it from…
מָלַק verb nip, nip off (head of bird; without necessarily severing it from body, compare Lev 5:8) (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic מְלַק,); —
Qal Perfect consecutive אֶתרֿאֹשׁוֺ וּמָלַק Lev 1:15, i.e. head of dove; compare יַבְדִּיל וְלֹא עָרְמּוֺ מִמּוּל אֶתרֿאֹשׁוֺ וּמָלַק Lev 5:8. compare Di-Ry. ᵐ5 ἀποκνίζω.
I, II. מַלְקָחַ֫יִם מֶלְקָחַ֫יִם, מַלְקוֺחַ, see לקח.
מַלְקוֺשׁ see לקשׁ. מֶלְתָּחָה see לתח.
[מַלְתָּעוֺת] see מְתַלְּעוֺת below תלע.
מַמְּגֻרוֺת see I. גור [מֵמַד] see מדד.
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
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