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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
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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 - "Then if you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring more plagues upon you, sevenfold as many as your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:33 - While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD 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 may be given him, but not more; lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:59

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:61

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:61 - Every sickness also, and every affliction which is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - And the generation to come, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick--

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:10 - And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-hor'on, and smote them as far as Aze'kah and Makke'dah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - When Joshua and the men of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were wiped out, and when 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 Aro'er to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a very great slaughter. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people 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 great slaughter; and he went down and stayed 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 can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with every sort of plague 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 defeated, and they fled, every man to his home; and there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 - And he slew some of the men of Beth-she'mesh, because they looked into the ark of the LORD; he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the LORD had made a great slaughter among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - and that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, was of 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 better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found; for now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great."

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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 made a great slaughter among them, so that 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 Kei'lah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter among them. So David delivered the inhabitants of Kei'lah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - And the battle grew hot that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died; and the blood of the wound flowed 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 Haz'ael king of Syria. And Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram 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 had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Haz'ael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, "If this is your mind, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - I will give for your servants, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, 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 - Abi'jah and his people slew them with a great slaughter; so there fell slain of Israel five hundred thousand picked 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 he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Haz'ael king of Syria. And Ahazi'ah the son of Jeho'ram 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 2Ch 28:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 - Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:5 - So the Jews smote all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 64:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean 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 to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they are not pressed out, or bound up, or softened with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:26 - And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a scourge, as when he smote Mid'ian at the rock of Oreb; and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 - that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7 - Has he smitten them as he smote those who smote them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 - As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds 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 hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:17 - "You shall say to them this word: 'Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is smitten with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 - Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Wilt thou be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12 - "For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:17 - For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, says the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:17 - "Edom shall become a horror; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:13 - Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but shall be an utter desolation; every one who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:9 - For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:19 - There is no assuaging your hurt, your wound is grievous. All who hear the news of you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6 - And if one asks him, 'What are these wounds on your back?' he will say, 'The wounds I received in the house of my friends.'"
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