מַעֲכָה
Maʻăkâh · mah-ak-aw'
Maakah (or Maakath), the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and of four Israelitesses and one Syrian woman
Lexicon
Derivation: or מַעֲכָת; (Joshua 13:13), from H4600 (מָעַךְ); depression;
Maakah (or Maakath), the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and of four Israelitesses and one Syrian woman
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Maachah, Maachathites. See also H1038 (בֵּית מַעֲכָה).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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 › to see and know › the open hand that covers › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know of the open hand that covers that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַעֲכָה 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
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 11 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of maachah6 · 26%
- was maachah5 · 22%
- maachah3 · 13%
- and maachah2 · 9%
- and the maachathites1 · 4%
- of maacah1 · 4%
- maacah1 · 4%
- and maacah1 · 4%
- and also maachah1 · 4%
- and out of syriamaachah1 · 4%
- and also concerning maachah1 · 4%
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.