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# מַחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4287

**Mahath** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Mahath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4287/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַ֫חַת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4287/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (perhaps from מַחֲתֶה thing seized)—Levites: 1 Ch 6:20, 𝔊 Μεθ, A Μααθ, 𝔊L Αμιωθ. 2 Ch 29:12; 31:13, 𝔊 Μααθ, Μαεθ, 𝔊L Μααθ, Ααθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mahath (2); of Mahath (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.20/#tree)

בֶּן־צוּף֙ בֶּן־אֶלְקָנָ֔ה בֶּן־מַ֖חַת בֶּן־עֲמָשָֽׂי׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Zuph the.son of.Elkanah the.son of.Mahath the.son of.Amasai

*JPS 1917:* the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai;

[2 Chronicles 29:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.29.12/#tree)

וַיָּקֻ֣מוּ הַ֠לְוִיִּם מַ֣חַת בֶּן־עֲמָשַׂ֞י וְיוֹאֵ֣ל בֶּן־עֲזַרְיָהוּ֮ מִן־בְּנֵ֣י הַקְּהָתִי֒ וּמִן־בְּנֵ֣י מְרָרִ֔י קִ֚ישׁ בֶּן־עַבְדִּ֔י וַעֲזַרְיָ֖הוּ בֶּן־יְהַלֶּלְאֵ֑ל וּמִן־הַגֵּ֣רְשֻׁנִּ֔י יוֹאָח֙ בֶּן־זִמָּ֔ה וְעֵ֖דֶן בֶּן־יוֹאָֽח׃

*Word for word:* and they.arose the Levites Mahath the.son of.Amasai and Joel the.son of.Azariah of the.descendants of the.Kohathite\[s\] and of the.descendants of.Merari Kish the.son of.Abdi and Azariah the.son of.Jehallelel and of the Gershonite\[s\] Joah the.son of.Zimmah and Eden the.son of.Joah

*JPS 1917:* Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4287.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4287/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).