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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 - And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:59

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:61

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:10 - And Jehovah discomfited them before Israel, and he slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he smote them from Aroer until thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 - And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now hath there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 - And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21 - And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And 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 Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah 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 Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:5 - And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 64:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7 -
But God will shoot at them;
With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 -
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil;
And strokes reach the innermost parts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26 - And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 - that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7 - Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 - As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19 - Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 - And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 - Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12 - For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - Because of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9 - For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto 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 assuaging of thy hurt; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6 - And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds between thine arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
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