מִיכָה
Mîykâh · mee-kaw'
Micah, the name of seven Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: an abbreviated form of H4320 (מִיכָיָה);
Micah, the name of seven Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Micah, Micaiah, Michah.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the hand that works › the open hand that covers › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the hand that works of the open hand that covers that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִיכָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
33 occurrences · 33 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of micah10 · 32%
- micah6 · 19%
- and micah3 · 10%
- michah2 · 6%
- of michah2 · 6%
- into micah's1 · 3%
- near to micah's1 · 3%
- unto micah1 · 3%
- and when micah1 · 3%
- the things which micah1 · 3%
- micah's1 · 3%
- unto him, micaiah1 · 3%
- that came to micah1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.