Strong’s H4454 · Hebrew
מָלַק
mâlaq · maw-lak'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to crack a joint; by implication, to wring the neck of afowl (without separating it)
In the King James Version wring off.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Leviticus 1:15And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
- Leviticus 5:8And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.