מַעֲכָהMaʻăkâh

1.

Pronunciation: mah-ak-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4601

Meanings

a. son of Nahor by his concubine (Genesis 22:22)

b. father of חָנָן, a hero of David (1 Chronicles 11:43)

c. Simeonite name (1 Chronicles 27:16)

d. father of Achish (1 Kings 2:39)

2.

a. Geshurite princess, wife of David, mother of Absalom (2 Samuel 3:3; 1 Chronicles 3:2)

b. daughter of Absalom, wife of Rehoboam, mother of Abijam (1 Kings 15:2; 2 Chronicles 11:20; 2 Chronicles 11:21)

c. mother of Asa, and called also daughter of Absalom (as b.) (1 Kings 15:10; 1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chronicles 15:16)

d. concubine of Caleb (1 Chronicles 2:48)

e. wife of Machir (1 Chronicles 7:16; 1 Chronicles 7:15)

f. wife of (יעיאל), father of Gibeon (1 Chronicles 8:29; 1 Chronicles 9:35)

3. of a people (2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Samuel 10:8; 1 Chronicles 19:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 23 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 22:24 Nahor had four other children from his concubine Reumah. Their names were Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
  • Joshua 13:13 But the Israelites failed to drive out the people of Geshur and Maacah, so they continue to live among the Israelites to this day.
  • 2 Samuel 3:3 The second was Daniel, whose mother was Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel. The third was Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur.
  • 2 Samuel 10:6 When the people of Ammon realized how seriously they had angered David, they sent and hired 20,000 Aramean foot soldiers from the lands of Beth-rehob and Zobah, 1,000 from the king of Maacah, and 12,000 from the land of Tob.
  • 2 Samuel 10:8 The Ammonite troops came out and drew up their battle lines at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans from Zobah and Rehob and the men from Tob and Maacah positioned themselves to fight in the open fields.
  • 1 Kings 2:39 But three years later two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. When Shimei learned where they were,
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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).