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# מִיכָיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4320

**Micah** — 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

Micah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4320/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִיכָיָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4320/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. the canon. prophet, Micah, Je 26:18 Kt (Qr מִיכָה, as Mi 1:1). Ne 12:35 (called מִיכָא, 11:17, 22). Ne 12:41. 2 K 22:12 (‖ 2 Ch 34:20 מִיכָה).

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.41/#tree)

וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֡ים אֶלְיָקִ֡ים מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה מִ֠נְיָמִין מִיכָיָ֧ה אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֛י זְכַרְיָ֥ה חֲנַנְיָ֖ה בַּחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and the priests Eliakim Maaseiah Miniamin Micaiah Elioenai Zechariah Hananiah with trumpets

*JPS 1917:* and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

[Nehemiah 12:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.35/#tree)

וּמִבְּנֵ֥י הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים בַּחֲצֹצְר֑וֹת זְכַרְיָ֨ה בֶן־יֽוֹנָתָ֜ן בֶּן־שְׁמַֽעְיָ֗ה בֶּן־מַתַּנְיָה֙ בֶּן־מִ֣יכָיָ֔ה בֶּן־זַכּ֖וּר בֶּן־אָסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* and some of.the.sons of the.priests with trumpets Zechariah the.son of.Jonathan the.son of.Shemaiah the.son of.Mattaniah the.son of.Micaiah the.son of.Zaccur the.son of.Asaph

*JPS 1917:* and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4320.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4320/): 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).