מָקוֹם maqom

Hebrew word for “place” · Strong’s H4725 · used 401 times in 379 verses

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Meaning

1) standing place, place;

How it is translated

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

• place 363
• places 19
• own place 11
• room 7
• like the place 1

Where it is used

Also in 21 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Deuteronomy 12 (9), Jeremiah 7 (7), Jeremiah 19 (7), Deuteronomy 16 (6), 1 Kings 8 (6), 2 Kings 6 (6), Leviticus 6 (5), Leviticus 14 (5), Job 28 (5), Genesis 19 (4)

Forms

• המקום 121
• מקום 84
• במקום 72
• למקום 13
• מקומו 11
• ממקומו 10
• למקמו 9
• ממקמו 9
• המקמות 9
• מקמו 7

Words used with it

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

• שָׁם sham “there” 89
• זֶה zeh “this” 87
• שֵׁם shem “name” 42
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 41
• קָרָא qara “to call” 37
• בָּחַר bachar “to choose” 26
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 45
• רָאָה raah “to see” 37
• מִן־ min “from” 34
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 31
• כֵּן ken “so” 26
• עַד ad “till” 28

Key verses

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

• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing…
• Exodus 20:24 — An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places…
• Deuteronomy 12:5 — But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou…
• 2 Kings 22:19 — Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants…
• Isaiah 45:19 — I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare…
• Isaiah 66:1 — Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
• Jeremiah 24:9 — And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places…
• Jeremiah 32:37 — Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto…
• Hosea 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place…
• Hosea 5:15 — I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
• Zephaniah 2:11 — The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of…
• Malachi 1:11 — For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto…

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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.