Definition
a primitive root; to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
Traditional renderings: consume, dissolve, (be) faint(-hearted), melt (away), make soft.
Traditional renderings: consume, dissolve, (be) faint(-hearted), melt (away), make soft.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders מוּג:
- ἐξίστημιexistēmi“to amaze”33%
- παραδίδωμιparadidōmi“to deliver”33%
- σαλεύωsaleuō“to shake”33%
Usage patterns
Occurrences
17 total
- Exodus 15:15נָמֹ֕גוּ · will melt awayThen the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
- Joshua 2:9נָמֹ֛גוּ · are melting in fear…and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.
- Joshua 2:24נָמֹ֛גוּ · are melting in fear“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.”
- 1 Samuel 14:16נָמ֖וֹג · melting awayNow when Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in Benjamin looked and saw the troops melting away and scattering in every direction,
- Job 30:22וּ֝תְמֹגְגֵ֗נִי · You toss me aboutYou snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
- Psalm 46:6תָּמ֥וּג · meltsNations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
- Psalm 65:10תְּ֝מֹגְגֶ֗נָּה · You soften itYou soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
- Psalm 75:3נְֽמֹגִ֗ים · quakeWhen the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
- Psalm 107:26תִתְמוֹגָֽג׃ · meltedThey mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
- Isaiah 14:31נָמ֖וֹג · Melt awayWail, 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.
- Isaiah 64:7וַתְּמוּגֵ֖נוּ · and delivered usNo one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
- Jeremiah 49:23נָמֹ֑גוּ · they are agitatedConcerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
- Ezekiel 21:15לָמ֣וּג · may meltSo that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.
- Amos 9:5וַתָּמ֔וֹג · and it meltsThe Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
- Amos 9:13תִּתְמוֹגַֽגְנָה׃ · will flow“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
- Nahum 1:5הִתְמֹגָ֑גוּ · melt awayThe mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
- Nahum 2:6נָמֽוֹג׃ · collapsesThe river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.