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Lexicon :: Strong's H4347 - makâ

Aa
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 BoxLev 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:21 - And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:10 - And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - Trouble is ours! Who will give us salvation from the hands of these great gods? These are the gods who sent all sorts of blows on the Egyptians in the waste land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 - But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And at their first attack, Jonathan and his servant put to the sword about twenty men, all inside the space of half an acre of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - How much more if the people had freely taken their food from the goods of those who were fighting against them! would there not have been much greater destruction among the Philistines?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 - And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21 - And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab, in Jezreel, because he was ill.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - And he went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which they had given him at Ramah when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to Jezreel to see Jehoram, the son of Ahab, because he was ill.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 - So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:5 - So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7 - But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26 - And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 - He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7 - Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 - As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19 - Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 - And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 - Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12 - For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9 - For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:19 - Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6 - And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
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