מַכָּה makkah

Hebrew word for “wound” · Strong’s H4347 · used 48 times in 46 verses

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Meaning

1) blow, wound, slaughter; 1a) blow, stripe; 1b) beating, scourging; 1c) wound; 1d) slaughter; 1e) defeat, conquest; 1f) plague

How it is translated

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

• wounds 13
• defeat 8
• wound 6
• blow 5
• plagues 4
• plague 3
• slaughter 3
• striking 2
• striking down 1
• blows 1
• like the defeat 1
• ¿ like the striking? 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Jeremiah 30 (3), Deuteronomy 28 (2), Joshua 10 (2), 1 Samuel 4 (2), 1 Samuel 14 (2), Leviticus 26 (1), Numbers 11 (1), Deuteronomy 25 (1), Deuteronomy 29 (1), Judges 11 (1)

Forms

• מכה 17
• מכות 4
• מכתך 3
• המכה 3
• המכים 3
• מכת 3
• ומכה 2
• מכותיה 2
• מכותם 1
• ומכות 1

Words used with it

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

• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 22
• גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 12
• חָלָה chalah “be weak” 7
• רָפָא rapah “to heal” 6
• שֶׁבֶר shever “breaking” 5
• אֲרָם aram “Syria” 6
• לָחַם lacham “to fight” 6
• חֳלִי choli “sickness” 4
• אָנַשׁ anash “be incurable” 3
• שָׁרַק sharaq “to whistle” 3
• מְאֹד meod “much” 5
• חֲזָהאֵל chazael “Hazael” 3

Key verses

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

• Joshua 10:10 — And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and…
• 1 Samuel 4:10 — And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel…
• 1 Samuel 6:19 — And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men:…
• 2 Chronicles 28:5 — Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and…
• Psalms 64:7 — But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
• Isaiah 1:6 — From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither…
• Isaiah 30:26 — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the…
• Jeremiah 14:17 — Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is…
• Jeremiah 15:18 — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
• Jeremiah 19:8 — And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
• Jeremiah 30:14 — All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the…
• Jeremiah 30:17 — For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man…

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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.