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Lexicon :: Strong's H4725 - māqôm

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מָקוֹם
Transliteration
māqôm
Pronunciation
maw-kome'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1999h

Strong’s Definitions

מָקוֹם mâqôwm, maw-kome'; or מָקֹם mâqôm; also (feminine) מְקוֹמָה mᵉqôwmâh; or מְקֹמָה mᵉqômâh; from H6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind):—country, × home, × open, place, room, space, × whither(-soever).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 402x

The KJV translates Strong's H4725 in the following manner: place (391x), home (3x), room (3x), whithersoever (2x), open (1x), space (1x), country (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 402x
The KJV translates Strong's H4725 in the following manner: place (391x), home (3x), room (3x), whithersoever (2x), open (1x), space (1x), country (1x).
  1. standing place, place

    1. standing place, station, post, office

    2. place, place of human abode

    3. city, land, region

    4. place, locality, spot

    5. space, room, distance

    6. region, quarter, direction

    7. give place to, instead of

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָקוֹם mâqôwm, maw-kome'; or מָקֹם mâqôm; also (feminine) מְקוֹמָה mᵉqôwmâh; or מְקֹמָה mᵉqômâh; from H6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind):—country, × home, × open, place, room, space, × whither(-soever).
STRONGS H4725: Abbreviations
מָקוֺם, מָקֹם (Exodus 29:31, etc.) 399 noun masculineGenesis 19:13 (but see below), standing-place, place; — absolute מ׳ Exodus 21:13 +; construct מְקוֺם Genesis 12:6 + (often before אֲשֶׁר Genesis 39:20 +); suffix מְקוֺמוֺ 1 Samuel 3:2 +, מְקֹמוֺ Genesis 18:33 +, etc.; plural usually מְקֹמוֺת Judges 19:13 +, מְקוֺמוֺת 1 Samuel 7:16; Jeremiah 29:14, מֹ֑ת 2 Samuel 17:9 + 2 times; suffix מְקוֺמֹתֵיכֶם Amos 4:6, etc. [apparently feminine (not Genesis 18:24, where עִיר is in mind, but) Job 20:9 (emendation see Commentaries), and Manuscripts (either Kt of Qr) Judges 19:13; 2 Samuel 17:9, 12; mostly explained away by AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 53]; —
1.
a. standing-place Exodus 3:5 (E), Joshua 5:15; Exodus 33:21; Numbers 23:13, 27 (all J E), Genesis 19:27 (J), Joshua 3:3 (D), of מַצֵּבוֺת, etc., 2 Kings 23:14, of ark (place where it is set, stands) 1 Kings 8:7 2 Chronicles 5:8, earth Isaiah 13:13; Job 9:6, rock Job 14:18; Job 18:4; compare Job 38:12, 19.
b. station, where soldiers are placed Joshua 8:19 (JE), Judges 20:33 (twice in verse); post in battle 2 Samuel 11:16.
c. post, office 1 Kings 20:24; Ecclesiastes 10:4.
2.
a. place where a thing belongs Genesis 29:3 (J), Joshua 4:18 (JE), 1 Samuel 5:3; Isaiah 46:7; Job 6:17; Job 37:1 (of the heart), Ecclesiastes 1:5; especially of ark 1 Samuel 5:11 + 9 times; of person = destination Judges 11:19.
b. especially
(1) place of human abode Genesis 13:14; Genesis 20:13; Judges 7:7; 1 Samuel 2:20 + 42 times, + מְקוֺם אָהֳלֵךְ Isaiah 54:2.
(2) of י׳'s abode Hosea 5:15, in heaven Micah 1:3; Isaiah 26:21; 1 Kings 8:30 2 Chronicles 6:21.
(3) lair of lion (figurative) Jeremiah 4:7.
3.place =
a. city Genesis 18:24, 26; Genesis 20:11; Deuteronomy 21:19 (|| עִיר) 2 Kings 18:25 + 39 times (1 Samuel 7:16 הַמִּקְדָּשִׁים Greek Version of the LXX, compare We HPS).
b. of land: Canaan Exodus 23:20; 1 Samuel 12:8; Jeremiah 16:2, 3(|| אֶרֶץ) + 17 times (12 times Jeremiah); Philistia 1 Samuel 14:46; Egypt Jeremiah 44:29; appositive מְדִינָה Esther 4:3, = מְדִינָה + עִיר Esther 8:17.
c. plot, parcel, of ground Isaiah 7:23; מְקוֺם הַגֹּרֶן 1 Chronicles 21:22, compare 1 Chronicles 21:25; 2 Chronicles 3:1.
d. land, region Numbers 20:5; Numbers 32:1; Che (privately) proposes בִּמְקֹם בְּקָעוֺת Psalm 84:7 (for בְּעֵמֶק הַבָּכָא; compare Isaiah 41:18).
4. in general, place, locality, spot Genesis 28:16, 17; Judges 2:5; Amos 4:6; Nehemiah 4:6; Nehemiah 4:7; Nehemiah 4:14 + (221 times in all); אַלְמֹנִי פְּלֹנִי מְקוֺם place of such a one1 Samuel 21:3; 2 Kings 6:8; בְּכָלהַֿמָּקוֺם אֲשֶׁר Exodus 20:24 (E; gi Exodus 20:21) in all places that; בְּכָלמֿ׳ Numbers 18:31 = anywhere, compare Deuteronomy 12:13; = everywhere Proverbs 15:13; Malachi 1:11, compare Amos 8:3; צָר מ׳ Numbers 22:26 narrow place; מ׳ Nehemiah 2:14 (passable) place; in particular: place at banquet † 1 Samuel 9:22; 1 Samuel 20:25, 27; sleeping-place, couch, † 1 Samuel 3:2, 9; Ruth 4:10; מְקוֺם הַחֵ֑צִי 1 Samuel 20:37 i.e. where arrow fell; = haunt, lurking-place 1 Samuel 23:22; 2 Samuel 17:9, 12; מְקוֺם תַּנִּים Psalm 44:20 place of jackals, i.e. desert; הַמֻּנָּח מְ׳ Ezekiel 41:11b place of the uncovered space, portion (compare הַמֻּנָּח alone Ezekiel 41:11a); הַשֶּׁבֶת מְ׳ of seat of Solomon's throne 1 Kings 10:19 2 Chronicles 9:18; אֶחָד מ׳ where waters were collected Genesis 1:9 (Greek Version of the LXX Ball מִקְוֶה), Psalm 104:8 destination of dead Ecclesiastes 3:30; Ecclesiastes 6:6; מ׳ = resting-place Job 16:18; נֶאֱמָן מ׳ sure place, for a peg (securely fastened) Isaiah 22:23, 25 (figurative, compare Ezra 9:8); of places, spots, on the body: leprous spot † 2 Kings 5:11; הַשְּׁחִין מְ׳ Leviticus 13:19 place of the boil; especially of shrine, sanctuary (compare We1 Samuel 7:16), מְקוֺם שְׁכֶם Genesis 12:6 (J; see Di Holz), so of Bethel Genesis 13:3 (J), Genesis 13:4 (J; מְקוֺם הַמִּזְבֵּחַ), Genesis 28:19 (J), Genesis 28:11; Genesis 28:11; Genesis 28:11 (E), Genesis 22:3, 4, 9, 14; (E), +; of idolatrous shrines Deuteronomy 12:2, 3; Ezekiel 6:13; 2 Chronicles 33:19; especially of temple: י׳) אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר הַמּ׳ (אֱלֹהֵיכֶם בּוֺ Deuteronomy 12:5, 14; Deuteronomy 14:23, 25; Deuteronomy 15:20; Deuteronomy 16:2, 6; Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 18:6 + 13 times Deuteronomy + Joshua 9:27 (D), Nehemiah 1:9; מ׳ 1 Kings 8:29 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 8:30, 35 2 Chronicles 6:20 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 6:21, 26; Jeremiah 27:22 +; צְבָאוֺת הַרצִֿיּוֺן שֵׁםיֿ׳ מְ׳ Isaiah 18:7; כִּסְאִי מְ׳ Ezekiel 43:7; מִקְדָּשֵׁנוּ מְ׳ Jeremiah 17:12; מִקְדָּשִׁי מְ׳ Isaiah 60:3; קָדְשׁוֺ מְ׳ Ezra 9:8; Psalm 24:3, etc.; of tabernacle הַקֹּדֶשׁ מְ׳ Leviticus 10:17; Leviticus 14:30; קָדוֺשׁ מ׳ in or about tabernacle, Exodus 29:31; Leviticus 6:9; Leviticus 6:19; Leviticus 6:20 + (all P), קָדוֺשׁ מְ׳ Ecclesiastes 8:10. Note especially † מְקוֺם before rel. clause, with אֲשֶׁר Genesis 39:20; Genesis 40:3; Ezekiel 6:13; Esther 4:3; Esther 8:17, with שֶׁ Ecclesiastes 1:7; Ecclesiastes 3:16, rel. omitted Job 18:21; also אֲשֶׁר בִּמְ׳ Hosea 2:1; 2 Samuel 15:21; 1 Kings 21:19; Jeremiah 22:12; Ezekiel 21:35; Nehemiah 4:14; Leviticus 4:24, 33; Leviticus 6:18; Leviticus 7:2; Leviticus 14:13; Numbers 9:17 (Ges§ 130 c).
†5.
b. space, distance, between (בֵּין) 1 Samuel 26:13.
†6. region, quarter, direction Ezekiel 10:11; אַחֵר מִמּ׳ Esther 4:14 from another quarter, source.
†7. peculiar uses are:
a. לְ נָתַן מ׳ Judges 20:36 give place (yield ground) to. Perhaps
b. אֲשֶׁר יֵאָמֵר בִּמְ׳ Hosea 2:1 instead of its being said (compare תַּחַת); מְקוֺם נְחָרִים Isaiah 33:21 instead of rivers (i.e. a substitute for them). — מְקוֺמָהּ Nahum 1:8 (|| אֹיְבָיו) read מִקָּמָיו or בְּק׳ BuhlZAW v (1885), 181, מִתְקוֺמְמָו We, בְּקָמָיו Now (all = his adversaries, compare GASm).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:9; 12:6; 12:6; 13:3; 13:4; 13:14; 18:24; 18:24; 18:26; 18:33; 19:13; 19:27; 20:11; 20:13; 22:3; 22:4; 22:9; 22:14; 24:23; 24:25; 24:31; 28:11; 28:11; 28:11; 28:16; 28:17; 28:19; 29:3; 39:20; 39:20; 40:3

Exodus

3:5; 20:21; 20:24; 21:13; 23:20; 29:31; 29:31; 33:21

Leviticus

4:24; 4:33; 6:9; 6:18; 6:19; 6:20; 7:2; 10:17; 13:19; 14:13; 14:30

Numbers

9:17; 18:31; 20:5; 22:26; 23:13; 23:27; 32:1

Deuteronomy

12:2; 12:3; 12:5; 12:13; 12:14; 14:23; 14:25; 15:20; 16:2; 16:6; 17:8; 18:6; 21:19

Joshua

3:3; 4:18; 5:15; 8:19; 9:27

Judges

2:5; 7:7; 11:19; 19:13; 19:13; 20:33; 20:36

Ruth

4:10

1 Samuel

2:20; 3:2; 3:2; 3:9; 5:3; 5:11; 7:16; 7:16; 7:16; 9:22; 12:8; 14:46; 20:25; 20:27; 20:37; 21:3; 23:22; 26:13

2 Samuel

11:16; 15:21; 17:9; 17:9; 17:9; 17:12; 17:12

1 Kings

8:7; 8:29; 8:30; 8:30; 8:35; 10:19; 20:24; 21:19

2 Kings

5:11; 6:8; 18:25; 23:14

1 Chronicles

21:22; 21:25

2 Chronicles

3:1; 5:8; 6:20; 6:21; 6:21; 6:26; 9:18; 33:19

Ezra

9:8; 9:8

Nehemiah

1:9; 2:14; 4:6; 4:7; 4:14; 4:14

Esther

4:3; 4:3; 4:14; 8:17; 8:17

Job

6:17; 9:6; 14:18; 16:18; 18:4; 18:21; 20:9; 37:1; 38:12; 38:19

Psalms

24:3; 44:20; 84:7; 104:8

Proverbs

15:13

Ecclesiastes

1:5; 1:7; 3:16; 6:6; 8:10; 10:4

Isaiah

5:8; 7:23; 13:13; 18:7; 22:23; 22:25; 26:21; 28:8; 33:21; 41:18; 46:7; 54:2; 60:3

Jeremiah

4:7; 7:32; 16:2; 16:3; 17:12; 19:11; 22:12; 27:22; 29:14; 44:29

Ezekiel

6:13; 6:13; 10:11; 41:11; 41:11; 43:7

Hosea

2:1; 2:1; 5:15

Amos

4:6; 4:6; 8:3

Micah

1:3

Nahum

1:8

Malachi

1:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4725 matches the Hebrew מָקוֹם (māqôm),
which occurs 401 times in 379 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 8 (Rth 3:4–1Ki 20:24)

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:4 - “Let it be that when he lies down, you shall know the place H4725 where he lies, and you shall go and uncover his feet and lie down; then he will tell you what you shall do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - “And also, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the one who had died, on behalf of his inheritance, so that the name of the one who had died will not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his birth place H4725; you are witnesses today.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:20 - Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May Yahweh establish for you a seed from this woman in place of [fn]the one she dedicated to Yahweh.” And they went to their own [fn]home H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:2 -

And it happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place H4725 (now his eyesight had begun to fade, and he could not see well),

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:9 - And Eli said to Samuel, “Go lie down, and it shall be if He calls you, that you shall say, ‘Speak, Yahweh, for Your slave is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:3 - Then the Ashdodites arose early the next morning, and behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. So they took Dagon and set him in his place H4725 again.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place H4725, so that it will not put [fn]us and [fn]our people to death.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout the city; the hand of God was very glorious there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:2 - And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Make us know [fn]how we shall send it to its place H4725.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16 - And he used to go annually on circuit to Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:22 -

Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the chamber and gave them a place H4725 at the head of those who were invited, who were about thirty men.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:8 - “When Jacob went into Egypt and your fathers cried out to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron [fn]who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:46 - Then Saul went up from [fn]pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:19 - “When you have stayed for three days, you shall go down quickly and come to the place H4725 [fn]where you hid yourself on that eventful day, and you shall remain by the stone Ezel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:25 - And the king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat down by Saul’s side, but David’s place H4725 was missing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - Now it happened the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David’s place H4725 was missing; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:37 - When the young man reached the place H4725 of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the lad and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me with a matter and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commanded you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place H4725.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:22 - “Go now, make more sure, and know and see his place H4725—where his very foot is—and who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very crafty.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:28 - So Saul returned from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines; therefore they called that place H4725 [fn]the Rock of Escape.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:5 - David then arose and came to the place H4725 where Saul had camped. And David saw the place H4725 where Saul lay, as well as Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army; and Saul was lying in the circle of the camp, and the people were camped around him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:13 -

Then David crossed over to the other side and stood on top of the mountain at a distance with a large area H4725 between them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:25 - Then Saul said to David, “Blessed are you, my son David; you will both accomplish much and surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:5 -

Then David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your sight, let them give me a place H4725 in one of the cities in the country, that I may live there; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:4 - But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may return to his place H4725 where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. For with what could this man make himself acceptable to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of [fn]these men?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:31 - and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places H4725 where David himself and his men went about.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:16 - And each one of them seized his [fn]opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his [fn]opponent’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place H4725 was called [fn]Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:23 - However, he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner struck him in the belly with the butt end of the spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died on the spot. And it happened that all who came to the place H4725 where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - So David came to Baal-perazim, and there David struck them down; and he said, “Yahweh has broken through my enemies before me, like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore he named that place H4725 [fn]Baal-perazim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:8 - And David became angry because [fn]of Yahweh’s breaking out against Uzzah; and that place H4725 is called [fn]Perez-uzzah to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:17 -

And they brought in the ark of Yahweh and placed it in its place H4725 inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:10 - “And I will appoint a place H4725 for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again; and the [fn]unrighteous will not afflict them any more as formerly,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:16 - So it was as Joab kept watch on the city, that he put Uriah at the place H4725 where he knew there were valiant men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 -

Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why will you also go with us? Return and remain with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile; return to your own place H4725.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:21 - But Ittai answered the king and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely wherever H4725 my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will be.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:9 - “Behold, he has now hidden himself in one of the [fn]caves or in another place H4725; and it will be [fn]when he falls on them at the first attack, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:12 - “So we shall come to him in one of the places H4725 where he can be found, and we will set down on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him, not even one will be left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:39 - Then all the people passed over the Jordan and the king passed over too. The king then kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his place H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:28 - They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place H4725 where it should be, each according to the legal judgment for him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - “My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place H4725 where you [fn]direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away. Then you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:6 - Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place H4725, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:7 - For the cherubim spread their wings over the place H4725 of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - “And there I have set a place H4725 for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which He cut with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:29 - that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place H4725 of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your slave shall pray toward this place H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30 - “And listen to the supplication of Your slave and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place H4725; listen in heaven Your dwelling place H4725; listen and forgive.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 -

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place H4725 and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:19 - There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and [fn]arms [fn]on each side of the seat H4725, and two lions standing beside the [fn]arms.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:8 - But the man of God said to the king, “If you were to give me half your house, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:16 - And he said, “I cannot return with you, nor go with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place H4725.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:22 - but have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place H4725 of which He said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water”; your body shall not come to the grave of your fathers.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:24 - “Do this thing: remove the kings, each from his place H4725, and put captains in their place,

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