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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 BoxLev 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:21 - And if after this ye should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - The flesh was yet between their teeth, before it failed, when the Lord was wroth with the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him with more stripes beyond these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - then the Lord shall magnify thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, great and wonderful plagues, and evil and abiding diseases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - And the Lord shall bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and every one that is written in the book of this law, until he shall have destroyed thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - (LXX 29:21) And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:10 - And the Lord struck them with terror before the children of Israel; and the Lord destroyed them with a great slaughter at Gabaon; and they pursued them by the way of the going up of Oronin, and they smote them to Azeca and to Makeda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - And it came to pass when Joshua and all Israel ceased destroying them utterly with a very great slaughter, that they that escaped took refuge in the strong cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:33 - And he smote them from Aroer till one comes to Arnon, in number twenty cities, and as far as Ebelcharmim, with a very great destruction: and the children of Ammon were straitened before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he smote them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and dwelt in a cave of the rock Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - Woe to us, O Lord, deliver us to-day, for such a thing has not happened aforetime: woe to us, who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote Egypt with every plague, and in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - And they fought with them; and [fn]the men of Israel fall, and they fled every man to his tent; and there was a very great slaughter; and there fell of Israel thirty thousand [fn]fighting men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 - And the sons of Jechonias were not pleased with the men of Bæthsamys, because they saw the ark of the Lord; and the Lord smote among them seventy men, and fifty thousand men: and the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted on the people a very great plague.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And the first [fn]slaughter which Jonathan and his armour-bearer effected was twenty men, with darts and [fn]slings, and pebbles of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - Surely if the people had this day eaten freely of the spoils of their enemies which they found, the slaughter among the Philistines would have been greater.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 - And [fn]there was again war against Saul; and David did valiantly, and fought against the Philistines, and smote them with a very great slaughter, and they fled from before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - So David and his men with him went to Keila, and fought with the Philistines; and they fled from before him, and he carried off their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter, and David rescued the inhabitants of Keila.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21 - (LXX 21:21) And the king of Israel went forth, and took all the horses and the chariots, and smote the enemy with a great slaughter in Syria.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - And the war was turned in that day, and the king was [fn]standing on the chariot against Syria from morning till evening; and he shed the blood out of his wound, into the bottom of the chariot, and died at even, and the blood ran out of the wound into the [fn]bottom of the chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezrael of the wounds with which they wounded him in Remmoth, when he fought with Azael king of Syria. And Ochozias son of Joram went down to see Joram the son of Achaab in Jezrael, because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - And king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezrael of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, in his war with Azael king of Syria. And Ju said, If your heart is with me, let there not go forth out of the city [fn]one fugitive to go and report to Jezrael.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - (LXX 2:9) And, behold, I have given freely to thy servants that work and cut the wood, corn for food, even twenty thousand measures of wheat, 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 Abia and his people smote them with a great slaughter: and there fell slain of Israel five hundred thousand mighty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - And Joram returned to Jezrael to be healed of the wounds wherewith the Syrians smote him in Ramoth, when he fought against Azael king of Syria. And Ochozias son of Joram, king of Juda, went down to see Joram the son of Achaab at Jezrael because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 - And the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and he smote him, and took captive of them a great band of prisoners, and carried him to Damascus. Also God delivered him into the hands of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:7 - (LXX 63:8) and God shall be exalted, their wounds were caused by the weapon of the foolish children,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - Bruises and contusions befall bad men; and plagues shall come into the inward parts of their belly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - From the feet to the head, there is no soundness in them; neither wound, nor bruise, nor festering ulcer are healed: it is not possible to apply a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26 - And God will stir up enemies against them, according to the stroke of Madiam in the place of affliction: and his wrath shall be by the way of the sea, even to the way that leads to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 - Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7 - Shall he himself be thus smitten, even as he smote? and as he slew, shall he be thus slain?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 - As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:19 - Alas for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy wound, and it has overtaken thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 - And thou shalt speak this word to them; Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease: for the daughter of my people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 - Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that has no faithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12 - (LXX 37:12) Thus saith the Lord; I have brought on thee destruction; thy stroke is painful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - (LXX 37:14) All thy friends have forgotten thee; they shall not ask about thee at all, for I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, even severe correction: thy sins have abounded above all thine iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - (LXX 37:17) For I will bring about thy healing, I will heal thee of thy grievous wound, saith the Lord; for thou art called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - (LXX 30:11) And Idumea shall be a desert: every one that passes by shall hiss at it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - (LXX 27:13) by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9 - For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:19 - There is no healing for thy bruise; thy wound has rankled: all that hear the report of thee shall clap their hands against thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6 - And I will say to him, What are these wounds between thine hands? and he shall say, Those with which I was wounded in [fn]my beloved house.
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