מַכָּהmakkâh
blow, wound, slaughter
Pronunciation: mak-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4347
Meanings
1.
a. blow, stripe (Deuteronomy 25:3; Proverbs 20:30; Esther 9:5)
b. beating, scourging (Isaiah 10:26)
c. wound (1 Kings 22:35; 2 Kings 8:29; 2 Kings 9:15)
2. = slaughter (1 Samuel 4:10; 1 Samuel 14:30; Joshua 10:20)
3. = defeat (Joshua 10:10; Joshua 11:33; Joshua 15:8)
4. plague, especially disease (1 Samuel 4:8; Deuteronomy 28:59; Deuteronomy 28:61)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 48 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 26:21 “If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me, I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins.
- Numbers 11:33 But while they were gorging themselves on the meat—while it was still in their mouths—the anger of the Lord blazed against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
- Deuteronomy 25:3 But never give more than forty lashes; more than forty lashes would publicly humiliate your neighbor.
- Deuteronomy 28:59 then the Lord will overwhelm you and your children with indescribable plagues. These plagues will be intense and without relief, making you miserable and unbearably sick.
- Deuteronomy 28:61 The Lord will afflict you with every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 29:22 “Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the Lord inflicts on it.
See every passage
- Leviticus 26:21
- Numbers 11:33
- Deuteronomy 25:3, 28:59, 28:61, 29:22
- Joshua 10:10, 10:20
- Judges 11:33, 15:8
- 1 Samuel 4:8, 4:10, 6:19, 14:14, 14:30, 19:8, 23:5
- 1 Kings 20:21, 22:35
- 2 Kings 8:29, 9:15
- 2 Chronicles 2:10, 13:17, 22:6, 28:5
- Esther 9:5
- Psalms 64:7
- Proverbs 20:30
- Isaiah 1:6, 10:26, 14:6, 27:7, 30:26
- Jeremiah 6:7, 10:19, 14:17, 15:18, 19:8, 30:12, 30:14, 30:17, 49:17, 50:13
- Micah 1:9
- Nahum 3:19
- Zechariah 13:6
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).