# H4601 מַעֲכָה

מַעֲכָה (Maʻăkâh), Strong’s H4601: 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…

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*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](https://besorah.bible/word/H4600) (to press, i.e. to pierce, emasculate, handle)

Occurs 23 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=24) — His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
- [Joshua 13:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/13?v=13) — Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live…
- [2 Samuel 3:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/3?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/10?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/10?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/2?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/15?v=2) — He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
- [1 Kings 15:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/15?v=10) — He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
- [1 Kings 15:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/15?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/2?v=48) — Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.