# H4725 מָקוֹם

מָקוֹם (mâqôwm), Strong’s H4725: properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind) KJV: country, [idiom]…

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*mâqôwm* — properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)

KJV: country, [idiom] home, [idiom] open, place, room, space, [idiom] whither(-soever).

Derived from [קוּם qûwm](https://besorah.bible/word/H6965) (to rise)

Occurs 401 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָקוֹם, מָקֹם 399 n.m. standing-place, place
- a standing-place
- b station, where soldiers are placed
- c post, office
- a place where a thing belongs
- b esp.
- (1) place of human abode
- (2) of י׳’s abode
- 3 place
- 4 in gen. place, locality, spot
- a space, room
- b space, distance, between
- 6 region, quarter, direction
- 7 peculiar uses

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=9) — God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
- [Genesis 12:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=6) — Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.
- [Genesis 13:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=3) — He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between…
- [Genesis 13:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=4) — to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name.
- [Genesis 13:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=14) — The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you…
- [Genesis 18:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=24) — What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who…
- [Genesis 18:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=26) — The LORD said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
- [Genesis 18:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=33) — The LORD went his way as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
- [Genesis 19:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=12) — The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in…
- [Genesis 19:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=13) — for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has…