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מִיכָה

Mîykâh · H4318 · Hebrew · proper noun · 33 occurrences

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This name belongs to 7 people

Meanings

  1. Micah

    Man; region of Ephraim

    Examples

    Judges 17:5 And the man Micah had a shrine and he made an ephod and household idols, and consecrated one of his sons, so that he might become his priest.

    Judges 17:8 Then the man left the city, Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he would find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.

    Judges 17:9 Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I may find a place.”

  2. Micah

    Man; son of Shimei; tribe of Reuben

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 5:5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

  3. Micah

    Man; descendant of king Saul; tribe of Benjamin

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 8:34 The son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah.

    1 Chronicles 8:35 The sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

    1 Chronicles 9:40 The son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal fathered Micah.

  4. Micah

    Man; Levite; time of king David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 23:20 The sons of Uzziel were Micah the first and Isshiah the second.

    1 Chronicles 24:24 Of the sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.

    1 Chronicles 24:25 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.

  5. Micah

    Man; son of Imlah; prophet; time of king Ahab

    Examples

    2 Chronicles 18:14 When he came to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, should we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” He said, “Go up and succeed, for they will be handed over to you!”

  6. Micah

    Man; time of king Josiah

    Examples

    2 Chronicles 34:20 Then the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,

  7. Micah

    Man; prophet; time of kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah

    Examples

    Micah 1:1 The word of the LORD which came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and which he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.

  8. Mica

    Man; son of Zichri, Zabdi; father of Mattaniah, Levite

    Examples

    Nehemiah 11:17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the leader in beginning the thanksgiving at prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his kinsmen; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

8 occurrences in 5 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

16 occurrences in 4 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
מִיכָיָה Mîykâyâh · H4320 · Micaiah
מִיכָיָה (Mîykâyâh, H4320) מִיכָיָה is a variant spelling of the same name as מִיכָה (Mîykâh, H4318) מִיכָה (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
Micah names several individuals, most notably the prophet whose oracles form the book of Micah (Micah 1:1), and the Ephraimite whose idol shrine features in Judges 17-18.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4318. Mikah מִיכָה proper name, masculine 1. Micha, the Ephraimite (ᵐ5 Μειχαίας), Jdg…
H4318. Mikah
מִיכָה proper name, masculine 1. Micha, the Ephraimite (ᵐ5 Μειχαίας), Jdg 17:5, Jdg 17:8, Jdg 17:9, Jdg 17:10, Jdg 17:12 (twice in verse); Jdg 17:13; Jdg 18:2 ff. (12 t.), called מִיכָֽיְהוּ Jdg 17:1, Jdg 17:4.
2 the prophet Micah (ᵐ5 Μειχαίας), Mic 1:1 (Jer 26:18 Kt מִיכָיָה).
3 1Ch 5:5.
4 son of Meribbaal (Mephibosheth) 1Ch 8:34f. (ᵐ5 Μιχια), 1Ch 9:40f. (ᵐ5 Μειχα), called מִיכָא 2Sa 9:12.
5 2Sa 23:20 (ᵐ5 Μειχας), 2Sa 24:24-25, (ᵐ5 Μειχα).
62Ch 18:14 ( = מִיכָֽיְהוּ 2).
72Ch 34:20 (|| 2Ki 22:12 מִיכָיָה).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People33 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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