מְחָאmᵉchâʼ

smite

Pronunciation: mekh-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4223

Meanings

Pa`el: i.e. hinder him (Daniel 4:32; Ecclesiastes 8:4)

Hithpa`al: be smitte, (nailed) (Ezra 6:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 6:11 “Those who violate this decree in any way will have a beam pulled from their house. Then they will be lifted up and impaled on it, and their house will be reduced to a pile of rubble.
  • Daniel 2:34 As you watched, a rock was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands. It struck the feet of iron and clay, smashing them to bits.
  • Daniel 2:35 The whole statue was crushed into small pieces of iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold. Then the wind blew them away without a trace, like chaff on a threshing floor. But the rock that knocked the statue down became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.
  • Daniel 4:35 All the people of the earth are nothing compared to him. He does as he pleases among the angels of heaven and among the people of the earth. No one can stop him or say to him, ‘What do you mean by doing these things?’

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).