Strong's Hebrew · H4601
מַעֲכָה
Maʻăkâh · mah-ak-aw'
DefinitionMaakah (or Maakath), the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and of four Israelitesses and one Syrian woman
Derivationor מַעֲכָת; (Joshua 13:13), from H4600 (מָעַךְ); depression;
KJV usageMaachah, Maachathites. See also H1038 (בֵּית מַעֲכָה).
Occurrences23 in the KJV · 23 verses
מַעֲכָה in Scripture
Genesis 22:24
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Joshua 13:13
Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
2 Samuel 3:3
And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
2 Samuel 10:6
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth -rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish -tob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel 10:8
And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish-tob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
1 Kings 2:39
And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
1 Kings 15:2
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother' s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:10
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother' s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:13
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
1 Chronicles 2:48
Maachah, Caleb' s concubine, bore Sheber, and Tirhanah.
1 Chronicles 3:2
The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:
1 Chronicles 7:15
And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister' s name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
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