Strong H4363מִכְמָס, מִכְמָשׂ
Michmash
- Transliteration
- mikmâs mikmâsh mikmash
- Pronunciation
- {mik-maws'} {mik-mawsh'} mik-mash'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
From H3647; hidden;
Mikmas or {Mikmash} a place in Palestine: - {Mikmas} Mikmash.
Mikmas or {Mikmash} a place in Palestine: - {Mikmas} Mikmash.
Meaning of the name
Michmas or Michmash = "hidden"
Detailed definition
Michmash, a town in Benjamin where Saul camped (1 Samuel 13:2, 5, 11, 16, 23) and near which Jonathan defeated a Philistine garrison (1 Samuel 14:5, 31).
In the biblical story
Michmash
A town in Benjamin; site of Saul's camp and Jonathan's victory
Michmash, a town in Benjamin where Saul camped (1 Samuel 13:2, 5, 11, 16, 23) and near which Jonathan defeated a Philistine garrison (1 Samuel 14:5, 31).
In the Bible
Strong H4363 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- michmash9
- michmas2
First verses
- 1 Samuel 13:2Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth–el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
- 1 Samuel 13:5And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth–aven.
- 1 Samuel 13:11And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
- 1 Samuel 13:16And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 13:23And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 14:5The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
- 1 Samuel 14:31And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
- Ezra 2:27The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
- Nehemiah 7:31The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.
- Nehemiah 11:31The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth–el, and in their villages,
- Isaiah 10:28He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: