מַחְמָד machmad

Hebrew word for “desire” · Strong’s H4261 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

desire, desirable thing, pleasant thing

How it is translated

Glosses given for machmad in context, with how often each is used:

• precious things 3
• desire 3
• desirable thing 1
• preciousnesses 1
• desirablenesses 1
• pleasant things 1
• delights 1
• treasure 1
• desirable things 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 24 (3), Lamentations 1 (2), Hosea 9 (2), 1 Kings 20 (1), 2 Chronicles 36 (1), Song of Solomon 5 (1), Isaiah 64 (1), Lamentations 2 (1), Joel 3 (1)

Forms

• מחמד 5
• מחמדיה 2
• מחמדי 2
• מחמדים 1
• מחמדינו 1
• מחמדיהם 1
• ומחמדי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with machmad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עַיִן ayin “eye” 5
• בַּת bat “daughter” 4
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 4
• אֵשׁ esh “fire” 3
• תִּפְאָרָה tipharah “beauty” 2
• מִקְדָּשׁ miqdash “sanctuary” 2
• צַר tsar “enemy” 2
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 3
• הֵן hen “look!” 2
• אֹהֶל ohel “tent” 2
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 2
• אָדָם adam “man” 2

Key verses

The verses using machmad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Kings 20:6 — Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that…
• 2 Chronicles 36:19 — And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels…
• Song of Solomon 5:16 — His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 64:11 — Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
• Lamentations 1:10 — The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command…
• Lamentations 1:11 — All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
• Lamentations 2:4 — He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter…
• Ezekiel 24:16 — Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
• Ezekiel 24:21 — Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and…
• Ezekiel 24:25 — Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon…
• Hosea 9:6 — For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess…
• Hosea 9:16 — Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

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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.