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# מַקֵּדָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4719

**Makkedah** — used 9 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

Makkedah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4719/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַקֵּדָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4719/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. in Judah Jos 15:41, near Beth Horon Jos 10:10, and Libnah v 29, where was a cave v 16, 17, cf. v 21, captured by Joshua v 28, with a king v 28; 12:16. 𝔊 Μακηδα. Site dubious, WarrenSurvey Mem. ii. 411 ff., 427 comp. El-mughâr, c. 2¾ miles SW. from Ekron.

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, 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: Makkedah (7); of Makkedah (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.16/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ מַקֵּדָה֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ בֵּֽית־אֵ֖לבֵּֽית־אֵ֖ל אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Makkedah one the.king of Bethel one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one;

[Joshua 10:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.10.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.10.16/#tree)

וַיָּנֻ֕סוּ חֲמֵ֖שֶׁת הַמְּלָכִ֣ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַיֵּחָבְא֥וּ בַמְּעָרָ֖ה בְּמַקֵּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.fled the.five the kings (the) these and they.hid.themselves in the cave at Makkedah

*JPS 1917:* And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4719/): 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).