STRONGS NUMBER H4347


Word Summary
makkah or makkeh: a blow, wound, slaughter
Original Word: מַכָּה
Transliteration: makkah or makkeh
Phonetic Spelling: (mak-kaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a blow, wound, slaughter
Meaning: a wound, carnage, pestilence
Strong's Concordance
beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, sore, stripe, stroke,

Or (masculine) makkeh {muk-keh'}; (plural only) from nakah; a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence -- beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, X sore, stripe, stroke, wound((-ed)).

see HEBREW nakah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4347. makkah

or makkeh מַכָּהnoun feminine blow, wound, slaughter; — absolute ׳מ1 Samuel 4:8 +; construct מַכַּתIsaiah 10:26 +; suffix מַכָּתִיJeremiah 10:19; 15:18, etc.; **plural מַכִּי֥֥2 Kings 8:29 = 9:15 2 Chronicles 22:6; מַכּוֺת‎ absolute Zechariah 13:6 +, construct,' etc.; plural מַכּוֺת‎ absolute 2 Kings 8:29 +; construct Deuteronomy 29:21 +; suffix מַכֹּתְךָ28:59, מַכּוֺתַיִךְJeremiah 30:17, etc.; —

1. a. blow, stripe, literally of scourging, chastising Deuteronomy 25:3; Proverbs 20:30 ("" מֶּצַע חַבֻּרוֺת‎); חֶרֶב מַכַּתEsther 9:5 (as accusative of congnate meaning with verb).

b. beating, scourging, figurative of defeat of Midian Isaiah 10:26 ("" שׁוֺט עוֺרֵר‎).

c. often wound 1 Kings 22:35; 2 Kings 8:29; 9:15 2 Chronicles 22:6 (read ׳מִןהַֿמּ‎), Zechariah 13:6 (יָדֶיךָ בֵּין‎); symbolic of violence Jeremiah 6:7 (+ חֳלִי‎); טְרִיָּה וּמַכָּה וְחַבּוּרָה מֶּצַעIsaiah 1:6 (of Judah, under figure of maltreated man), compare Micah 1:9 אֲנוּשָׁה׳מ‎), Nahum 3:19 ("" שֶׁבֶר‎; of Nineveh), especially in Jeremiah (of Judah): Jeremiah 10:19; 14:17; 30:12 (all + נַחֲלָהsevere; "" שֶׁבֶר‎), 15:18 (׳מ אֲנוּשָׁה‎), 19:8; Jeremiah 47:17; 50:13, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb 30:14, with verb רָפָאheal 30:17; also מ ׳מַחַץIsaiah 30:26 ("" שֶׁבֶר‎); of wounds made by ׳י‎s arrows Psalm 64:8.

2 = slaughter 1 Samuel 4:10; 14:30, usually as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with הִכָּהJoshua 10:20; 1 Samuel 6:19; 14:14; 19:8; 23:5; 1 Kings 20:21; 2 Chronicles 13:17.

3 = defeat, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with הִכָּהJoshua 10:10; Joshua 11:33; 15:8; 2 Chronicles 28:5; = conquest (of ׳י‎) Isaiah 14:6.

4 plague, especially disease, as punishment (of ׳י‎), 1 Samuel 4:8; Deuteronomy 28:59 (3 t. in verse) ("" חֳלִי‎), 28:61 ("" id.), 29:21 ("" תַּחֲלֻאִים‎), Leviticus 26:21 (H), as accusative of congnate meaning with verb Numbers 11:33. — מַכּוֺת2 Chronicles 2:9 read מַכֹּלֶת‎ (see אכל‎) as "" 1 Kings 5:25, so ᵑ9 ᵐ5‎ Be Öttli and Th1Ki 5:25.