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Lexicon :: Strong's H4725 - māqôm

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מָקוֹם
Transliteration
māqôm
Pronunciation
maw-kome'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1999h

Strong’s Definitions

מָקוֹם mâqôwm, maw-kome'; or מָקֹם mâqôm; also (feminine) מְקוֹמָה mᵉqôwmâh; or מְקֹמָה mᵉqômâh; from H6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind):—country, × home, × open, place, room, space, × whither(-soever).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 402x

The KJV translates Strong's H4725 in the following manner: place (391x), home (3x), room (3x), whithersoever (2x), open (1x), space (1x), country (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 402x
The KJV translates Strong's H4725 in the following manner: place (391x), home (3x), room (3x), whithersoever (2x), open (1x), space (1x), country (1x).
  1. standing place, place

    1. standing place, station, post, office

    2. place, place of human abode

    3. city, land, region

    4. place, locality, spot

    5. space, room, distance

    6. region, quarter, direction

    7. give place to, instead of

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָקוֹם mâqôwm, maw-kome'; or מָקֹם mâqôm; also (feminine) מְקוֹמָה mᵉqôwmâh; or מְקֹמָה mᵉqômâh; from H6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind):—country, × home, × open, place, room, space, × whither(-soever).
STRONGS H4725: Abbreviations
מָקוֺם, מָקֹם (Exodus 29:31, etc.) 399 noun masculineGenesis 19:13 (but see below), standing-place, place; — absolute מ׳ Exodus 21:13 +; construct מְקוֺם Genesis 12:6 + (often before אֲשֶׁר Genesis 39:20 +); suffix מְקוֺמוֺ 1 Samuel 3:2 +, מְקֹמוֺ Genesis 18:33 +, etc.; plural usually מְקֹמוֺת Judges 19:13 +, מְקוֺמוֺת 1 Samuel 7:16; Jeremiah 29:14, מֹ֑ת 2 Samuel 17:9 + 2 times; suffix מְקוֺמֹתֵיכֶם Amos 4:6, etc. [apparently feminine (not Genesis 18:24, where עִיר is in mind, but) Job 20:9 (emendation see Commentaries), and Manuscripts (either Kt of Qr) Judges 19:13; 2 Samuel 17:9, 12; mostly explained away by AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 53]; —
1.
a. standing-place Exodus 3:5 (E), Joshua 5:15; Exodus 33:21; Numbers 23:13, 27 (all J E), Genesis 19:27 (J), Joshua 3:3 (D), of מַצֵּבוֺת, etc., 2 Kings 23:14, of ark (place where it is set, stands) 1 Kings 8:7 2 Chronicles 5:8, earth Isaiah 13:13; Job 9:6, rock Job 14:18; Job 18:4; compare Job 38:12, 19.
b. station, where soldiers are placed Joshua 8:19 (JE), Judges 20:33 (twice in verse); post in battle 2 Samuel 11:16.
c. post, office 1 Kings 20:24; Ecclesiastes 10:4.
2.
a. place where a thing belongs Genesis 29:3 (J), Joshua 4:18 (JE), 1 Samuel 5:3; Isaiah 46:7; Job 6:17; Job 37:1 (of the heart), Ecclesiastes 1:5; especially of ark 1 Samuel 5:11 + 9 times; of person = destination Judges 11:19.
b. especially
(1) place of human abode Genesis 13:14; Genesis 20:13; Judges 7:7; 1 Samuel 2:20 + 42 times, + מְקוֺם אָהֳלֵךְ Isaiah 54:2.
(2) of י׳'s abode Hosea 5:15, in heaven Micah 1:3; Isaiah 26:21; 1 Kings 8:30 2 Chronicles 6:21.
(3) lair of lion (figurative) Jeremiah 4:7.
3.place =
a. city Genesis 18:24, 26; Genesis 20:11; Deuteronomy 21:19 (|| עִיר) 2 Kings 18:25 + 39 times (1 Samuel 7:16 הַמִּקְדָּשִׁים Greek Version of the LXX, compare We HPS).
b. of land: Canaan Exodus 23:20; 1 Samuel 12:8; Jeremiah 16:2, 3(|| אֶרֶץ) + 17 times (12 times Jeremiah); Philistia 1 Samuel 14:46; Egypt Jeremiah 44:29; appositive מְדִינָה Esther 4:3, = מְדִינָה + עִיר Esther 8:17.
c. plot, parcel, of ground Isaiah 7:23; מְקוֺם הַגֹּרֶן 1 Chronicles 21:22, compare 1 Chronicles 21:25; 2 Chronicles 3:1.
d. land, region Numbers 20:5; Numbers 32:1; Che (privately) proposes בִּמְקֹם בְּקָעוֺת Psalm 84:7 (for בְּעֵמֶק הַבָּכָא; compare Isaiah 41:18).
4. in general, place, locality, spot Genesis 28:16, 17; Judges 2:5; Amos 4:6; Nehemiah 4:6; Nehemiah 4:7; Nehemiah 4:14 + (221 times in all); אַלְמֹנִי פְּלֹנִי מְקוֺם place of such a one1 Samuel 21:3; 2 Kings 6:8; בְּכָלהַֿמָּקוֺם אֲשֶׁר Exodus 20:24 (E; gi Exodus 20:21) in all places that; בְּכָלמֿ׳ Numbers 18:31 = anywhere, compare Deuteronomy 12:13; = everywhere Proverbs 15:13; Malachi 1:11, compare Amos 8:3; צָר מ׳ Numbers 22:26 narrow place; מ׳ Nehemiah 2:14 (passable) place; in particular: place at banquet † 1 Samuel 9:22; 1 Samuel 20:25, 27; sleeping-place, couch, † 1 Samuel 3:2, 9; Ruth 4:10; מְקוֺם הַחֵ֑צִי 1 Samuel 20:37 i.e. where arrow fell; = haunt, lurking-place 1 Samuel 23:22; 2 Samuel 17:9, 12; מְקוֺם תַּנִּים Psalm 44:20 place of jackals, i.e. desert; הַמֻּנָּח מְ׳ Ezekiel 41:11b place of the uncovered space, portion (compare הַמֻּנָּח alone Ezekiel 41:11a); הַשֶּׁבֶת מְ׳ of seat of Solomon's throne 1 Kings 10:19 2 Chronicles 9:18; אֶחָד מ׳ where waters were collected Genesis 1:9 (Greek Version of the LXX Ball מִקְוֶה), Psalm 104:8 destination of dead Ecclesiastes 3:30; Ecclesiastes 6:6; מ׳ = resting-place Job 16:18; נֶאֱמָן מ׳ sure place, for a peg (securely fastened) Isaiah 22:23, 25 (figurative, compare Ezra 9:8); of places, spots, on the body: leprous spot † 2 Kings 5:11; הַשְּׁחִין מְ׳ Leviticus 13:19 place of the boil; especially of shrine, sanctuary (compare We1 Samuel 7:16), מְקוֺם שְׁכֶם Genesis 12:6 (J; see Di Holz), so of Bethel Genesis 13:3 (J), Genesis 13:4 (J; מְקוֺם הַמִּזְבֵּחַ), Genesis 28:19 (J), Genesis 28:11; Genesis 28:11; Genesis 28:11 (E), Genesis 22:3, 4, 9, 14; (E), +; of idolatrous shrines Deuteronomy 12:2, 3; Ezekiel 6:13; 2 Chronicles 33:19; especially of temple: י׳) אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר הַמּ׳ (אֱלֹהֵיכֶם בּוֺ Deuteronomy 12:5, 14; Deuteronomy 14:23, 25; Deuteronomy 15:20; Deuteronomy 16:2, 6; Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 18:6 + 13 times Deuteronomy + Joshua 9:27 (D), Nehemiah 1:9; מ׳ 1 Kings 8:29 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 8:30, 35 2 Chronicles 6:20 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 6:21, 26; Jeremiah 27:22 +; צְבָאוֺת הַרצִֿיּוֺן שֵׁםיֿ׳ מְ׳ Isaiah 18:7; כִּסְאִי מְ׳ Ezekiel 43:7; מִקְדָּשֵׁנוּ מְ׳ Jeremiah 17:12; מִקְדָּשִׁי מְ׳ Isaiah 60:3; קָדְשׁוֺ מְ׳ Ezra 9:8; Psalm 24:3, etc.; of tabernacle הַקֹּדֶשׁ מְ׳ Leviticus 10:17; Leviticus 14:30; קָדוֺשׁ מ׳ in or about tabernacle, Exodus 29:31; Leviticus 6:9; Leviticus 6:19; Leviticus 6:20 + (all P), קָדוֺשׁ מְ׳ Ecclesiastes 8:10. Note especially † מְקוֺם before rel. clause, with אֲשֶׁר Genesis 39:20; Genesis 40:3; Ezekiel 6:13; Esther 4:3; Esther 8:17, with שֶׁ Ecclesiastes 1:7; Ecclesiastes 3:16, rel. omitted Job 18:21; also אֲשֶׁר בִּמְ׳ Hosea 2:1; 2 Samuel 15:21; 1 Kings 21:19; Jeremiah 22:12; Ezekiel 21:35; Nehemiah 4:14; Leviticus 4:24, 33; Leviticus 6:18; Leviticus 7:2; Leviticus 14:13; Numbers 9:17 (Ges§ 130 c).
†5.
b. space, distance, between (בֵּין) 1 Samuel 26:13.
†6. region, quarter, direction Ezekiel 10:11; אַחֵר מִמּ׳ Esther 4:14 from another quarter, source.
†7. peculiar uses are:
a. לְ נָתַן מ׳ Judges 20:36 give place (yield ground) to. Perhaps
b. אֲשֶׁר יֵאָמֵר בִּמְ׳ Hosea 2:1 instead of its being said (compare תַּחַת); מְקוֺם נְחָרִים Isaiah 33:21 instead of rivers (i.e. a substitute for them). — מְקוֺמָהּ Nahum 1:8 (|| אֹיְבָיו) read מִקָּמָיו or בְּק׳ BuhlZAW v (1885), 181, מִתְקוֺמְמָו We, בְּקָמָיו Now (all = his adversaries, compare GASm).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:9; 12:6; 12:6; 13:3; 13:4; 13:14; 18:24; 18:24; 18:26; 18:33; 19:13; 19:27; 20:11; 20:13; 22:3; 22:4; 22:9; 22:14; 24:23; 24:25; 24:31; 28:11; 28:11; 28:11; 28:16; 28:17; 28:19; 29:3; 39:20; 39:20; 40:3

Exodus

3:5; 20:21; 20:24; 21:13; 23:20; 29:31; 29:31; 33:21

Leviticus

4:24; 4:33; 6:9; 6:18; 6:19; 6:20; 7:2; 10:17; 13:19; 14:13; 14:30

Numbers

9:17; 18:31; 20:5; 22:26; 23:13; 23:27; 32:1

Deuteronomy

12:2; 12:3; 12:5; 12:13; 12:14; 14:23; 14:25; 15:20; 16:2; 16:6; 17:8; 18:6; 21:19

Joshua

3:3; 4:18; 5:15; 8:19; 9:27

Judges

2:5; 7:7; 11:19; 19:13; 19:13; 20:33; 20:36

Ruth

4:10

1 Samuel

2:20; 3:2; 3:2; 3:9; 5:3; 5:11; 7:16; 7:16; 7:16; 9:22; 12:8; 14:46; 20:25; 20:27; 20:37; 21:3; 23:22; 26:13

2 Samuel

11:16; 15:21; 17:9; 17:9; 17:9; 17:12; 17:12

1 Kings

8:7; 8:29; 8:30; 8:30; 8:35; 10:19; 20:24; 21:19

2 Kings

5:11; 6:8; 18:25; 23:14

1 Chronicles

21:22; 21:25

2 Chronicles

3:1; 5:8; 6:20; 6:21; 6:21; 6:26; 9:18; 33:19

Ezra

9:8; 9:8

Nehemiah

1:9; 2:14; 4:6; 4:7; 4:14; 4:14

Esther

4:3; 4:3; 4:14; 8:17; 8:17

Job

6:17; 9:6; 14:18; 16:18; 18:4; 18:21; 20:9; 37:1; 38:12; 38:19

Psalms

24:3; 44:20; 84:7; 104:8

Proverbs

15:13

Ecclesiastes

1:5; 1:7; 3:16; 6:6; 8:10; 10:4

Isaiah

5:8; 7:23; 13:13; 18:7; 22:23; 22:25; 26:21; 28:8; 33:21; 41:18; 46:7; 54:2; 60:3

Jeremiah

4:7; 7:32; 16:2; 16:3; 17:12; 19:11; 22:12; 27:22; 29:14; 44:29

Ezekiel

6:13; 6:13; 10:11; 41:11; 41:11; 43:7

Hosea

2:1; 2:1; 5:15

Amos

4:6; 4:6; 8:3

Micah

1:3

Nahum

1:8

Malachi

1:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4725 matches the Hebrew מָקוֹם (māqôm),
which occurs 401 times in 379 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 8 (Gen 1:9–Exo 20:24)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare[fn] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:13 - because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[fn] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 - Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - So that place was called Beersheba,[fn] because the two men swore an oath there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:4 - On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:14 - So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - Then he asked, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - And she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:31 - “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:17 - He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - He called that place Bethel,[fn] though the city used to be called Luz.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:30 - So Jacob called the place Peniel,[fn] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:17 - Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel,[fn] because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:13 - Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:14 - Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15 - Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:40 - These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn’t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn’t been any shrine prostitute here.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:29 - Bear in mind that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:7 - And he called the place Massah[fn] and Meribah[fn] because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:23 - If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - “ ‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.

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