H4601 מַעֲכָה
Maʻăkâh — Maakah (or Maakath), the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and of four Israelitesses and one Syrian woman
KJV: Maachah, Maachathites. See also H1038 (בֵּית מַעֲכָה).
Derived from מָעַךְ mâʻak (to press, i.e. to pierce, emasculate, handle)
Occurs 23 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַעֲכָה n.pr.m., f. et gent.
- 1 n.pr.m.
- a son of Nahor by his concubine
- b father of חָנָן, a hero of David
- c Simeonite name
- d father of Achish
- 2 n.pr.f.
- a Geshurite princess, wife of David, mother of Absalom
- b daughter of Absalom, wife of Rehoboam, mother of Abijam
- c mother of Asa, and called also daughter of Absalom
- d concubinr of Caleb
- e wife of Machir
- f wife of (יעיאל), father of Gibeon
- 3 n.pr.gent. dwelling W. of Bashan
Where it occurs
- Genesis 22:24 — His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
- Joshua 13:13 — Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live…
- 2 Samuel 3:3 — and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the…
- 2 Samuel 10:6 — When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians…
- 2 Samuel 10:8 — The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of…
- 1 Kings 2:39 — At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei…
- 1 Kings 15:2 — He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
- 1 Kings 15:10 — He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
- 1 Kings 15:13 — He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut…
- 1 Chronicles 2:48 — Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.