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Lexicon :: Strong's H4347 - makâ

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מַכָּה
Transliteration
makâ
Pronunciation
mak-kaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1364d

Strong’s Definitions

מַכָּה makkâh, mak-kaw'; or (masculine) מַכֶּה makkeh; (plural only) from H5221; a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence:—beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, × sore, stripe, stroke, wound(-ed).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x

The KJV translates Strong's H4347 in the following manner: wound (14x), slaughter (14x), plague (11x), beaten (1x), stripes (2x), stroke (2x), blow (1x), smote (1x), sores (1x), wounded (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x
The KJV translates Strong's H4347 in the following manner: wound (14x), slaughter (14x), plague (11x), beaten (1x), stripes (2x), stroke (2x), blow (1x), smote (1x), sores (1x), wounded (1x).

  1. blow, wound, slaughter

    1. blow, stripe

    2. beating, scourging

    3. wound

    4. slaughter

    5. defeat, conquest

    6. plague

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַכָּה makkâh, mak-kaw'; or (masculine) מַכֶּה makkeh; (plural only) from H5221; a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence:—beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, × sore, stripe, stroke, wound(-ed).
STRONGS H4347: Abbreviations
† מַכָּה noun feminine blow, wound, slaughter; — absolute מ׳ 1 Samuel 4:8 +; construct מַכַּת Isaiah 10:26 +; suffix מַכָּתִי Jeremiah 10:19; Jeremiah 15:18, etc.; **plural מַּכִּים 2 Kings 8:29 = 2 Kings 9:15 2 Chronicles 22:6; מַכּוֺת absolute Zechariah 13:6 +, construct,' etc.; plural מַכּוֺת absolute 2 Kings 8:29 +; construct Deuteronomy 29:21 +; suffix מַכֹּתְךָ Deuteronomy 28:59, מַכּוֺתַיִךְ Jeremiah 30:17, etc.; —
1. a. blow, stripe, literally of scourging, chastising Deuteronomy 25:3; Proverbs 20:30 (|| פֶּצַע חַבֻּרוֺת); מַכַּת חֶרֶב Esther 9:5 (as accusative of congnate meaning with verb).
b. beating, scourging, figurative of defeat of Midian Isaiah 10:26 (|| עוֺרֵר שׁוֺט).
c. often wound 1 Kings 22:35; 2 Kings 8:29; 2 Kings 9:15 2 Chronicles 22:6 (read מִןהַֿמּ׳), Zechariah 13:6 (בֵּין יָדֶיךָ); symbolic of violence Jeremiah 6:7 (+ חֳלִי); פֶּצַע וְחַבּוּרָה וּמַכָּה טְרִיָּה Isaiah 1:6 (of Judah, under figure of maltreated man), compare Micah 1:9 אֲנוּשָׁה מ׳), Nahum 3:19 (|| שֶׁבֶר; of Nineveh), especially in Jeremiah (of Judah): Jeremiah 10:19; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 30:12 (all + נַחֲלָה severe; || שֶׁבֶר), Jeremiah 15:18 (אֲנוּשָׁה מ׳), Jeremiah 19:8; Jeremiah 47:17; Jeremiah 50:13, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb Jeremiah 30:14, with verb רָפָא heal Jeremiah 30:17; also מַחַץ מ׳ Isaiah 30:26 (|| שֶׁבֶר); of wounds made by י׳'s arrows Psalm 64:8.
2. = slaughter 1 Samuel 4:10; 1 Samuel 14:30, usually as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with הִכָּה Joshua 10:20; 1 Samuel 6:19; 1 Samuel 14:14; 1 Samuel 19:8; 1 Samuel 23:5; 1 Kings 20:21; 2 Chronicles 13:17.
3. = defeat, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with הִכָּה Joshua 10:10; Joshua 11:33; Joshua 15:8; 2 Chronicles 28:5; = conquest (of י׳) Isaiah 14:6.
4. plague, especially disease, as punishment (of י׳), 1 Samuel 4:8; Deuteronomy 28:59 (3 times in verse) (|| חֳלִי), Deuteronomy 28:61 (|| id.), Deuteronomy 29:21 (|| תַּחֲלֻאִים), Leviticus 26:21 (H), as accusative of congnate meaning with verb Numbers 11:33. — מַכּוֺת 2 Chronicles 2:9 read H4361 מַכֹּלֶת (see H398 אכל) as || 1 Kings 5:25, so Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Be Öttli and Th1Ki 5:25.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

26:21

Numbers

11:33

Deuteronomy

25:3; 28:59; 28:59; 28:61; 29:21; 29:21

Joshua

10:10; 10:20; 15:8

1 Samuel

4:8; 4:8; 4:10; 6:19; 14:14; 14:30; 19:8; 23:5

1 Kings

20:21; 22:35

2 Kings

8:29; 8:29; 8:29; 9:15; 9:15

2 Chronicles

2:9; 13:17; 22:6; 22:6; 28:5

Esther

9:5

Psalms

64:8

Proverbs

20:30

Isaiah

1:6; 10:26; 10:26; 14:6; 30:26

Jeremiah

6:7; 10:19; 10:19; 14:17; 15:18; 15:18; 19:8; 30:12; 30:14; 30:17; 30:17; 50:13

Micah

1:9

Nahum

3:19

Zechariah

13:6; 13:6

H4347

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4347 matches the Hebrew מַכָּה (makâ),
which occurs 48 times in 46 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:21 - ‘If then, you [fn]act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague H4347 on you seven times according to your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very severe plague. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - “He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes H4347 than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:59

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues H4347 on you and [fn]your descendants, even [fn]severe and lasting plagues, H4347 and miserable and chronic sicknesses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:61

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - “Also every sickness and every plague H4347 which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - “Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues H4347 of the land and the diseases with which the LORD has [fn]afflicted it, will say,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:10 - And the LORD confounded them before Israel, and He [fn]slew them with a great slaughter H4347 at Gibeon, and pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - It came about when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished [fn]slaying them with a very great slaughter, H4347 until they were destroyed, and the survivors who remained of them [fn]had entered the fortified cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - He struck them with a very great slaughter H4347 from Aroer [fn]to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - He struck them [fn]ruthlessly with a great slaughter; H4347 and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - “Woe to us! Who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues H4347 in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - So the Philistines fought and Israel was [fn]defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter H4347 was very great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 - He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - That first slaughter H4347 which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a furrow in an acre of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - “How much more, if only the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter H4347 among the Philistines has not been great.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 - When there was war again, David went out and fought with the Philistines and [fn]defeated them with great slaughter, H4347 so that they fled before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines; and he led away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. H4347 Thus David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21 - The king of Israel went out and [fn]struck the horses and chariots, and [fn]killed the Arameans with a great slaughter. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - The battle [fn]raged that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot in front of the Arameans, and died at evening, and the blood from the wound H4347 ran into the bottom of the chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds H4347 which the Arameans had [fn]inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King [fn]Joram had returned to Jezreel to be healed of the wounds H4347 which the Arameans had [fn]inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. So Jehu said, “If this is your mind, then let no one escape or [fn]leave the city to go tell it in Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - “Now behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, 20,000 [fn]kors of crushed H4347 wheat and 20,000 [fn]kors of barley, and 20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of oil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, H4347 so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - So he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds [fn]which they had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And [fn]Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 - Wherefore, the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they [fn]defeated him and carried away from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who [fn]inflicted him with heavy casualties. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:5 - Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with [fn]the sword, killing and destroying; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 64:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7 - But God [fn]will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly [fn]they will be wounded. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - Stripes that wound scour away evil,
And strokes H4347 reach the [fn]innermost parts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds, H4347
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26 - The LORD of hosts will arouse a scourge against him like the slaughter H4347 of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and His staff will be over the sea and He will lift it up the way He did in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 - Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, H4347
Which [fn]subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7 - Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter H4347 of His slain, [fn]have they been slain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day the LORD binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise [fn]He has inflicted. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 - “As a well [fn]keeps its waters fresh,
So she [fn]keeps fresh her wickedness.
Violence and destruction are heard in her;
Sickness and wounds H4347 are ever before Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19 - Woe is me, because of my [fn]injury!
My wound H4347 is incurable.
But I said, “Truly this is a sickness,
And I must bear it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 - “You will say this word to them,
‘Let my eyes flow down with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
For the virgin daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, H4347
With a sorely infected wound. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 - Why has my pain been perpetual
And my wound H4347 incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream
With water that is unreliable?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its [fn]disasters. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12 - “For thus says the LORD,
‘Your wound H4347 is incurable
And your injury H4347 is serious.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - ‘All your lovers have forgotten you,
They do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound H4347 of an enemy,
With the punishment of a cruel one,
Because your iniquity is great
And your sins are numerous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - ‘For I will [fn]restore you to [fn]health
And I will heal you of your wounds,’ H4347 declares the LORD,
‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying:
“It is Zion; no one [fn]cares for her.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - “Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - “Because of the indignation of the LORD she will not be inhabited,
But she will be completely desolate;
Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified
And will hiss because of all her wounds. H4347

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9 - For her [fn]wound H4347 is incurable,
For it has come to Judah;
It has reached the gate of my people,
Even to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:19 - There is no relief for your breakdown,
Your wound H4347 is incurable.
All who hear [fn]about you
Will clap their hands over you,
For on whom has not your evil passed continually?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6 - “And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds H4347 between your [fn]arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of [fn]my friends.’
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