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# מַכָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4347

**blow** — used 48 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

blow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4347/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַכָּה²: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4347/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. blow, wound, slaughter;—abs. מ׳ 1 S 4:8 +; cstr. מַכַּת Is 10:26 +; sf. מַכָּתִי Je 10:19; 15:18 etc.; pl. מַכִּים 2 K 8:29 = 9:15 = 2 Ch 22:6; מַכּוֹת abs. Zc 13:6 +, cstr., etc. pl. מַכּוֹת abs. 2 K 8:29 +; cstr. Dt 29:21 +; sf. מַכֹּתְךָ Dt 28:59, מַכּוֹתַיִךְ Je 30:17, etc.;— blow, stripe, lit. of scourging, chastising Dt 25:3; Pr 20:30 (‖ חַבֻּרוֹת פֶּצַע); מַכַּת חֶרֶב Est 9:5 (as acc. cogn.). beating, scourging, fig. of defeat of Midian Is 10:26 (‖ עוֹרֵר שׁוֹט). often wound 1 K 22:35; 2 K 8:29; 9:15 = 2 Ch 22:6 (read מִן־הַמּ׳), Zc 13:6 (בֵּין יָדֶיךָ); symbol. of violence Je 6:7 (+ חֳלִי); פֶּצַע וְחַבּוּרָה וּמַכָּה טְרִיָּה Is 1:6 (of Judah, under fig. of maltreated man), cf. Mi 1:9 (מ׳אֲנוּשָׁה), Na 3:19 (‖ שֶׁבֶר; of Nineveh), especially in Je (of Judah): Je 10:19; 14:17; 30:12 (all + נַחֲלָה severe; ‖ שֶׁבֶר), 15:18 (מ׳ אֲנוּשָׁת), 19:8; 49:17; 50:13, as acc. cogn. 30:14, c. vb. רָפָא heal v 17; also מַחַץ מ׳ Is 30:26 (‖ שֶׁבֶר); of wounds made by י׳’s arrows ψ 64:8. = slaughter 1 S 4:10; 14:30, usually as acc. cogn. c. הִכָּה Jos 10:20; 1 S 6:19; 14:14; 19:8; 23:5; 1 K 20:21; 2 Ch 13:17. = defeat, as acc. cogn. c. הִכָּה Jos 10:10; Ju 11:33; 15:8; 2 Ch 28:5; = conquest (of י׳) Is 14:6. plague, especially disease, as punishment (of י׳), 1 S 4:8; Dt 28:59(×3) (‖ חֳלִי), v 61 (‖ id.), 29:21 (‖ תַּחֲלֻאִים), Lv 26:21 (H), as acc. cogn. Nu 11:33.—מַכּוֹת 2 Ch 2:9 read מַכֹּלֶת (v. אבל) as ‖ 1 K 5:25, so 𝔊 𝔙 Be Öt and Th 1 K 5:25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 45 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wounds (11); a defeat (9); a blow (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 64:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.8/#tree)

וַיֹּרֵ֗ם אֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים חֵ֥ץ פִּתְא֑וֹם הָ֝י֗וּ מַכּוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he shot.at.them God an.arrow suddenly they.will.be wounds their

*JPS 1917:* But God doth shoot at them with an arrow suddenly; thence are their wounds.

[Proverbs 20:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.30/#tree)

חַבֻּר֣וֹת פֶּ֭צַע תַּמְר֣וּק בְּרָ֑ע וּ֝מַכּ֗וֹת חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃

*Word for word:* wounds of.bruise\[s\] \[are\].a.cleansing (in) evil and blows \[the\].chambers of.\[the\].belly

*JPS 1917:* Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4347/): 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).