STRONGS NUMBER H4277


Word Summary
machaq: to utterly destroy, annihilate
Original Word: מָחַק
Transliteration: machaq
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-khak')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to utterly destroy, annihilate
Meaning: to utterly destroy, annihilate
Strong's Concordance
smite off

A primitive root; to crush -- smite off.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4277. machaq

[מָחַק‎] verb utterly destroy, annihilate (compare GFM) (Late Hebrew id. wipe or rub of, erase; , Aramaic מְחַקid.; Arabic utterly destroy, annihilate); — only 3 feminine singular: ראֹשׁוֺ מָֽחֲקָהJudges 5:26 ("" חָלַף מָחַץ, הָלַם,‎).

[מֶחְקָר‎] see חקר‎.

מחר‎ (√ of following; be in front of meet, compare Assyrian ma—âru, DlHWB 400 come to meet, receive [compare קִכֵּל‎], and IdProl 93; Sabean מחֿרreceive, etc., noun id., token of favour, "" gift, נחלת‎; DHMZMG xxxvii. 1883, 408).