מָחָה machah
Hebrew word for “to wipe” · Strong’s H4229 · used 36 times in 32 verses
Meaning
1) to wipe, wipe out;
Senses in the lexicon
- to wipe (34)
- to strike (1)
- be marrow (1)
How it is translated
Glosses given for machah in context, with how often each is used:
- wipe out 6
- wiped out 4
- will wipe out 4
- will be wiped out 3
- will wipe 2
- have wiped out 2
- certainly 1
- will wipe them off 1
- may wipe out 1
- will wipe clean 1
- someone wipes clean 1
- wipes it clean 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psalms | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Genesis | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Exodus | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Deuteronomy | 4 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Kings | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Isaiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Proverbs | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Numbers | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Nehemiah | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 7 (2), Exodus 32 (2), Deuteronomy 25 (2), Psalms 51 (2), Psalms 109 (2), Isaiah 25 (2), Genesis 6 (1), Exodus 17 (1), Numbers 5 (1), Numbers 34 (1)
Forms
- מחה 5
- ומחה 4
- ימחה 3
- תמחה 3
- אמחה 2
- ומחיתי 2
- למחות 2
- תמח 2
- וימח 1
- וימחו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with machah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- סֵפֶר sepher “scroll” 6
- שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 7
- חַטָּאת chattat “sin” 6
- כָּתַב katav “to write” 5
- אַל al “not” 6
- שֵׁם shem “name” 6
- תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 5
- עָוֺן avan “iniquity” 4
- יְקוּם yequm “existence” 2
- פֶּשַׁע pesah “transgression” 3
- רֶמֶשׂ remes “creeping” 2
- אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 3
Key verses
The verses using machah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 7:4 — For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off…
- Exodus 17:14 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek…
- Exodus 32:32 — Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 — The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book…
- Psalms 9:5 — Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
- Psalms 51:1 — [To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to…
- Psalms 109:13 — Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
- Isaiah 25:6 — And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines…
- Isaiah 25:8 — He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the…
- Isaiah 43:25 — I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
- Isaiah 44:22 — I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
- Ezekiel 6:6 — In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and…
See all 32 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.