Hebrew verb · H4454
מָלַק
malaqmaw-lak'
to nip
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâlaq
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4454is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4454
to crack a joint; by implication, to wring the neck of afowl (without separating it)
The King James renders it: wring off.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
malaq is rendered "to nip". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 1:15Then the priest shall bring it to the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood should be drained out on the side of the altar.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then the priest shall bring it to the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood should be drained out on the side of the altar.
Leviticus 1:15וּמָלַק֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he will nip off2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּמָלַק֙1
- וּמָלַ֧ק1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq3ms2Hc/Vqq3ms
Leviticus
two uses
Then the priest shall bring it to the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood should be drained out on the side of the altar.
- וּמָלַק֙umalakHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will nip off
He is to bring them to the priest, who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;
- וּמָלַ֧קumalakHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will nip off
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.