Strong H4601H4601Gמַעֲכָה

Maacah

Transliteration: ma‛ăkâh ma‛ăkâth
Pronunciation: {mah-ak-aw'} mah-ak-awth'
Morphology: Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.22.24;
son of: Nahor (H5152H) and Reumah (H7208);
brother of: Tebah (H2875), Gaham (H1514) and Tahash (H8477);
half-brother of: Uz (H5780H), Buz (H938), Kemuel (H7055), Chesed (H3777), Hazo (H2375), Pildash (H6394), Jidlaph (H3044) and Bethuel (H1328A)

Meaning of the name

Maachah = "oppression"

General definition

From H4600; depression;
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: - {Maachah} Maachathites. See also H1038 .

In the biblical story

Maacah

Concubine of Nahor, Abraham's brother

Maacah, a concubine of Nahor, was the mother of Nahor's son Tebah (Gen.22.24).

In the Bible

Strong H4601G appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

maachah1

First verses

Genesis 22:24
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.