מְרֹדָךְ
Mᵉrôdâk · mer-o-dawk'
Merodak, a Babylonian idol
Lexicon
Derivation: of foreign derivation;
Merodak, a Babylonian idol
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Merodach. Compare H4757 (מְרֹאדַךְ בַּלְאָדָן).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › the doorway, the way in › the open hand that covers
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest of the doorway, the way in of the open hand that covers.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מְרֹדָךְ 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
1 occurrences · 1 OT · 0 NT · 1 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- merodach1 · 100%
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.