The corpus record — Hebrew

וּמָלַק֙

malaq

to nip off the neck of a bird

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 2 · 0.07/10k

Senses

1. מלק

to nip off the neck of a bird

2. מָלַק

nip, nip off

3. מָלַק

to crack a joint; by implication, to wring the neck of afowl (without separating it)

Attestations

וּ/מָלַק֙ Leviticus 1:15 (BHS)
וּ/מָלַ֧ק Leviticus 5:8 (BHS)

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.