מַכָּה
mak.kah
“wound”
Definition
a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
or (masculine) מַכֶּה; (plural only) from H5221 (נָכָה); a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication,
- blow, wound, slaughter 1a) blow, stripe 1b) beating, scourging 1c) wound 1d) slaughter 1e) defeat, conquest 1f) plague
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
מַכָּה appears 43 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then the king of Israel marched out and attacked the horses and chariots, inflicting a great slaughter on the Arameans.
But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
“Edom will become an object of horror.All who pass by will be appalledand will scoff at all her wounds.
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