מַקֵּל
maqqêl · mak-kale
a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)
Lexicon
Derivation: or (feminine) מַקְּלָה; from an unused root meaning apparently to germinate;
a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: rod, (hand-)staff.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › what comes behind, the returning cycle › authority, the one who leads
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of what comes behind, the returning cycle of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַקֵּל 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
18 occurrences · 18 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the rods2 · 11%
- him rods1 · 6%
- which was in the rods1 · 6%
- before the rods1 · 6%
- among the rods1 · 6%
- for with my staff1 · 6%
- and your staff1 · 6%
- with a staff1 · 6%
- his staff1 · 6%
- to me with staves1 · 6%
- a rod1 · 6%
- rod1 · 6%
- and the handstaves1 · 6%
- and their staff1 · 6%
- staves1 · 6%
- my staff1 · 6%
- staff1 · 6%
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.