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# מִיכָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4316

**Micha** — used 4 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

Micha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4316/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִיכָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4316/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (so in Palm., VogNo. 36a). son of Mephibosheth (𝔊 Μειχα), 2 S 9:12 (= מִיכָה 4). Ne 10:12. Ne 11:17 (= 1 Ch 9:15), v 22 (called מִיכָיָה 12:35).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.12/#tree)

מִיכָ֥א רְח֖וֹב חֲשַׁבְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Mica Rehob Hashabiah

*JPS 1917:* Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah;

[1 Chronicles 9:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.15/#tree)

וּבַקְבַּקַּ֥ר חֶ֖רֶשׁ וְגָלָ֑ל וּמַתַּנְיָה֙ בֶּן־מִיכָ֔א בֶּן־זִכְרִ֖י בֶּן־אָסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* and Bakbakkar Heresh and Galal and Mattaniah the.son of.Mica the.son of.Zikri the.son of.Asaph

*JPS 1917:* and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4316.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4316/): 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).