מַכָּה
makkâh · mak-kaw'
a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
Lexicon
Derivation: or (masculine) מַכֶּה; (plural only) from H5221 (נָכָה); a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication,
a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
- a wound
- figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, [idiom] sore, stripe, stroke, wound(-ed).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- 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 open hand that covers › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the open hand that covers that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַכָּה 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
48 occurrences · 48 OT · 0 NT · 33 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- slaughter13 · 33%
- plagues2 · 5%
- of the wounds2 · 5%
- plague1 · 3%
- stripes1 · 3%
- thy plagues1 · 3%
- and the plagues1 · 3%
- and every plague1 · 3%
- the plagues1 · 3%
- with all the plagues1 · 3%
- of the wound1 · 3%
- of beaten1 · 3%
- because of the wounds1 · 3%
- with the stroke1 · 3%
- shall they be wounded1 · 3%
- so do stripes1 · 3%
- sores1 · 3%
- for him according to the slaughter1 · 3%
- stroke1 · 3%
- him, as he smote1 · 3%
- of their wound1 · 3%
- and wounds1 · 3%
- my wound1 · 3%
- blow1 · 3%
- and my wound1 · 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.