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# מַעֲכָתִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4602

**the Maachathites** — used 8 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

the Maachathites [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4602/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲכָתִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4602/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. הַמּ׳ 1 Ch 4:19; so בֶּן־הַמַּעֲכָתִי 2 S 23:34 of one of David’s heroes, We del. בן; read prob. בֵּיח הַמּ׳ Klo HPS; v. also Dr; of associate of Ishmael the Judaean 2 K 25:23=Je 40:8; coll.=the Maachathites Dt 3:14 Jos 12:5; 13:11, 13 (all + הַגְּשׁוּרִי; cf. מַעֲכָה 3).—𝔊 Μαχ(ε)ι, Μαχατ(ε)ι, Μααχαθι, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Maacathite\[s\] (4); the Maacathite (3); Maacathite (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.34/#tree)

אֱלִיפֶ֥לֶט בֶּן־אֲחַסְבַּ֖י בֶּן־הַמַּֽעֲכָתִ֑יס אֱלִיעָ֥ם בֶּן־אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל הַגִּלֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Eliphelet the.son of.Ahasbai the.son of the.Maacathite Eliam the.son of.Ahithophel the Gilonite

*JPS 1917:* Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite;

[1 Chronicles 4:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.19/#tree)

וּבְנֵי֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת הֽוֹדִיָּ֔ה אֲח֣וֹת נַ֔חַם אֲבִ֥י קְעִילָ֖ה הַגַּרְמִ֑י וְאֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ הַמַּעֲכָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.the.wife of.Hodiah the.sister of.Naham \[were\].the.father of.Keilah (the) Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4602/): 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).