מוּג
mug
“to melt”
Definition
to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
a primitive root;
- to melt, cause to melt 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to melt, faint 1a2) to cause to melt 1b) (Niphal) to melt away 1c) (Polel) to soften, dissolve, dissipate 1d) (Hithpolel) to melt, flow
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logos (G3056)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
מוּג appears 11 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Now when Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in Benjamin looked and saw the troops melting away and scattering in every direction,
“Behold, the days are coming,”declares the LORD,“when the plowman will overtake the reaperand the treader of grapes, the sower of seed.The mountains will drip with sweet wine,with which all the hills will flow.
Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city!Melt away, all you Philistines!For a cloud of smoke comes from the north,and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
You snatch me up into the windand drive me before it;You toss me about in the storm.
“The LORD has surely delivered the entire land into our hands,” they said to Joshua. “Indeed, all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of us.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.