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מַלְקוֹחַ

mal.qo.ach

jaw

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Strong’s H4455bNoun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

jaws1

In the text

Psalm 22:15מַלְקוֹחָי
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מַלְקוֹחַ] n.[m.] jaw (as taking, seizing food);—ψ 22:16

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.