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מַעֲכָה

Maʻăkâh · H4601 · Hebrew · proper noun · 22 occurrences

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This name belongs to 9 people

This name belongs to 3 places

Meanings

  1. Maacah

    A man who was a son of Nahor

    Examples

    Genesis 22:24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also gave birth to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

  2. Aram Maacah

    Aramean kingdom; located south of Mt. Hermon, east of the Jordan Valley and north of the Yarmuk

    Examples

    2 Samuel 10:6 Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become repulsive to David, the sons of Ammon sent messengers and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob with twelve thousand men.

    2 Samuel 10:8 And the sons of Ammon came out and lined up for battle at the entrance of the city, while the Arameans of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were stationed by themselves in the field.

    1 Chronicles 19:7 So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and camped opposite Medeba. And the sons of Ammon gathered together from their cities and came to the battle.

  3. Maacah

    A woman, daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, wife of David, and mother of Absalom

    Examples

    2 Samuel 3:3 and his second, Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;

    1 Chronicles 3:2 the third was Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;

  4. Maacah

    A man also known as Maoch, father of Achish, king of Gath

    Examples

    1 Kings 2:39 But it came about at the end of three years, that two of Shimei’s servants ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And others told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your servants are in Gath.”

  5. Maacah

    A woman, daughter of Abishalom (Absalom), and mother of Abijah (Abijam), king of Judah

    Examples

    1 Kings 15:2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

    1 Kings 15:10 He reigned for forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

    1 Kings 15:13 And even his mother Maacah, he also removed her from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her abominable image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

  6. Maacah

    A woman who was a concubine of Caleb

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 2:48 Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah.

  7. Maacah

    A woman who was a daughter of Manasseh

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 7:15 Machir took a wife from Huppim and Shuppim, whose name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.

  8. Maacah

    A woman, wife of Makir, son of Manasseh

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 7:16 Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh; the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

  9. Maacah

    A woman, wife of Jeiel, the founder of Gibeon

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 8:29 Now, Jeiel, the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon, and his wife’s name was Maacah;

    1 Chronicles 9:35 Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon, and his wife’s name was Maacah,

  10. Maacah

    A man and warrior in the time of King David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 11:43 Hanan the son of Maacah and Joshaphat the Mithnite,

  11. Maacah

    A man of the tribe of Simeon, father of Shephatiah, the officer in charge of his tribe in the time of King David

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 27:16 Now in charge of the tribes of Israel: chief officer for the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

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

10 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

5 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 2 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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Semantic domains 3 entries
Names of Groups003001006
מַעֲכָה occurs as the personal/clan name Maacah and "the Maacathites," illustrated at Genesis 22:24 (Maacah, a son of Nahor) and Joshua 13:13 ("the Maacathites").
Names of People003001007
מַעֲכָה, Maachah, is a personal name borne by several individuals, including Nahor's concubine and the mother of Absalom, daughter of Talmai king of Geshur.
Names of Locations003001010
מַעֲכָה also names the kingdom of Maacah, whose king sends troops to aid the Ammonites against David.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4601. Maakah or Maakath מַעֲכָה proper name, masculine, feminine and of a people 1.…
H4601. Maakah
or Maakath מַעֲכָה proper name, masculine, feminine and of a people 1. masculine ᵐ5 Μ(ο)ωχα, Μα(α)χα:
a. son of Nahor by his concubine רְאוּמָה Gen 22:22 (J), ancestor of people see
3. b. father of חָנָן, a hero of David 1Ch 11:43.
c. Simeonite name 1Ch 27:16.
d. father of Achish 1Ki 2:39 (see מָעוֺךְ above).
2. feminine ᵐ5 Μ(ο)ωχα, Μααχα, etc.:
a. Geshurite princess, wife of David, mother of Absalom, 2Sa 3:3 = 1Ch 3:2.
b. daughter of Absalom, wife of Rehoboam, mother of Abijam, 1Ki 15:2; 2Ch 11:20-21, 2Ch 11:22; read also ׳מ2Ch 13:2 (so ᵑ6 ᵐ5) for מִיכָיָה ᵑ0, where called daughter of Uriel of Gibeah (on this difficulty see Be Öttli, and compare c).
c. mother of Asa, and called also daughter of Absalom (as b) 1Ki 15:10, compare 1Ki 15:13 2Ch 15:16, (on this difficulty see Th Kmp: in Kau).
d. concubine of Caleb according to 1Ch 2:48.
e. wife of Machir 1Ch 7:16, compare 1Ch 7:15 (corrupt, see Be).
f. wife of (יעיאל), father of Gibeon, 1Ch 8:29; 1Ch 9:35.
3. of a people, ᵐ5 Μοοχα, Μωχα, Μα(α)χα; dwelling west of Bashan, near Soba, and Geshur (compare especially adjective, of a people below), 2Sa 10:6, 2Sa 10:8 = 1Ch 19:7, מ ׳אֲרַם 1Ch 19:6 (compare Gen 22:24 above); = מַעֲכָת Jos 13:13 (+ גְּשׁוּר), ᵐ5 ὀ Μαχατει, Μαχαθι. — מַעֲכָה בֵּית אָבֵל see below בַּיִת, p. 112 above, and אָבֵל, p. 5.
מַעֲכָת see above מַעֲכָה
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Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of People18 occurrencesNames of Locations4 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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