# H4229 מָחָה

מָחָה (mâchâh), Strong’s H4229: properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to KJV: abolish, blot out…

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*mâchâh* — properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to

KJV: abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, [idiom] utterly, wipe…

Occurs 36 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָחָה vb. denom. only Pu. Pt. in Is 25:6 fat pieces full of marrow
- מָחָה vb
- מָחָה vb. wipe, wipe out
- Qal
- 1 wipe
- 2 blot out = obliterate from the memory
- 3 blot out = exterminate
- Niph.
- 1 be wiped out
- 2 be blotted out
- 3 be exterminated
- Hiph. blot out, from the memory
- מָחָה vb
- מָחָה vb. strike;—Nu 34:11 (P)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 6:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=7) — The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping…
- [Genesis 7:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=4) — In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing…
- [Genesis 7:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=23) — Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and…
- [Exodus 17:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=14) — The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will…
- [Exodus 32:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=32) — Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
- [Exodus 32:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=33) — The LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.
- [Numbers 5:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=23) — “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
- [Numbers 34:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=11) — The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to…
- [Deuteronomy 9:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/9?v=14) — Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation…
- [Deuteronomy 25:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/25?v=6) — It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not…