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# מָכַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4355

**be low** — 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

be low [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4355/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָכַךְ: vb. be low, humiliated [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4355/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be low, humiliated (Aramaic מְכַךְ, ܡܰܟ; Arabic مَكَّ is suck entirely out, diminish, consume);— Impf. וַיָּמֹ֫כּוּ ψ 106:43 of perverse Isr. Impf. יִמַּךְ Ec 10:18 sink (in decay) of house-timbers. Pf. וְהֻמְּכוּ Jb 24:24 be brought low, of wicked.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: it comes low (1); they are brought low (1); they became low (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 10:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.18/#tree)

בַּעֲצַלְתַּ֖יִם יִמַּ֣ךְ הַמְּקָרֶ֑ה וּבְשִׁפְל֥וּת יָדַ֖יִם יִדְלֹ֥ף הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* in laziness(es) it.comes.low the rafter\[s\] and in lowering of.hands it.leaks the house

*JPS 1917:* By slothfulness the rafters sink in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.

[Psalms 106:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.43/#tree)

פְּעָמִ֥ים רַבּ֗וֹת יַצִּ֫ילֵ֥ם וְ֭הֵמָּה יַמְר֣וּ בַעֲצָתָ֑ם וַ֝יָּמֹ֗כּוּ בַּעֲוֺנָֽם׃

*Word for word:* times many he delivered.them and they they.rebelled by plan\[s\] their and they.became.low by iniquity their

*JPS 1917:* Many times did He deliver them; but they were rebellious in their counsel, and sank low through their iniquity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4355.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4355/): 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).