מִיכָהMîykâh
Micah, the name of seven Israelites
Pronunciation: mee-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4318
Meanings
1. Micha, the Ephraimite (Judges 17:5; Judges 17:8; Judges 17:9)
2. the prophet Micah (Micah 1:1; Jeremiah 26:18)
4. son of Meribbaal (Mephibosheth) (1 Chronicles 8:34; 1 Chronicles 9:40; 2 Samuel 9:12)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 33 times in the Bible.
- Judges 17:5 Micah set up a shrine for the idol, and he made a sacred ephod and some household idols. Then he installed one of his sons as his personal priest.
- Judges 17:8 He had left Bethlehem in search of another place to live, and as he traveled, he came to the hill country of Ephraim. He happened to stop at Micah’s house as he was traveling through.
- Judges 17:9 “Where are you from?” Micah asked him. He replied, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
- Judges 17:10 “Stay here with me,” Micah said, “and you can be a father and priest to me. I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, plus a change of clothes and your food.”
- Judges 17:12 So Micah installed the Levite as his personal priest, and he lived in Micah’s house.
- Judges 17:13 “I know the Lord will bless me now,” Micah said, “because I have a Levite serving as my priest.”
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).