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# מִיכַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4324

**Michal** — used 18 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

Michal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4324/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִיכַל: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4324/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (according to Ol§ 277 f.; contr. from מִיכָאֵל):—younger daughter of Saul, wife of David (𝔊 Μελχολ), 1 S 14:49; 18:20, 27, 28; 19:11, 12, 13, 17(×2); 25:44 2 S 3:13, 14; 6:16 = 1 Ch 15:29, 2 S 6:20, 21, 23; also 21:8 (𝔊 Μιχολ), but error for מֵרַב (𝔊L Μεροβ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Michal (16); \[was\] Michal (1); of Michal (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 19:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.12/#tree)

וַתֹּ֧רֶד מִיכַ֛ל אֶת־דָּוִ֖ד בְּעַ֣ד הַחַלּ֑וֹן וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ וַיִּבְרַ֖ח וַיִּמָּלֵֽט׃

*Word for word:* and she.let.down Michal (et) David through the window and he.went and he.fled and he.escaped

*JPS 1917:* So Michal let David down through the window; and he went, and fled, and escaped.

[2 Samuel 6:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.23/#tree)

וּלְמִיכַל֙ בַּת־שָׁא֔וּל לֹֽא־הָ֥יָה לָ֖הּ יָ֑לֶד עַ֖ד י֥וֹם מוֹתָֽהּ׃פ

*Word for word:* and to Michal the.daughter of.Saul not it.belonged to her a.child until the.day her.death her

*JPS 1917:* And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4324.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4324/): 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).