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# מָעוֹךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4582

**Maoch** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Maoch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4582/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָעוֹךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4582/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of Achish of Gath (on form cf. LagBN 32);—1 S 27:2 (𝔊 Αμμαχ, A Μωαβ, 𝔊L Αχιμααν)=מַעֲכָה 1 K 2:39 (𝔊 Αμησα, A 𝔊L Μααχα).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of Maoch (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 27:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.27.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.27.2/#tree)

וַיָּ֣קָם דָּוִ֔ד וַיַּעֲבֹ֣ר ה֔וּא וְשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אִ֖ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עִמּ֑וֹ אֶל־אָכִ֥ישׁ בֶּן־מָע֖וֹךְ מֶ֥לֶךְ גַּֽת׃

*Word for word:* and he.arose David and he.passed.over he and six hundred(s) man who \[were\].with him to Achish the.son of.Maoch the.king of.Gath

*JPS 1917:* And David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men that were with him, unto Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4582.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4582/): 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).