Strong H4601H4601Rמַעֲכָה
Maacah
One of the 11 senses of Strong H4601
- Transliteration
- ma‛ăkâh ma‛ăkâth
- Pronunciation
- {mah-ak-aw'} mah-ak-awth'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Maacah (Maacath), a region near Geshur (Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5).
Meaning of the name
Maachah = "oppression"
General definition
In the biblical story
Maacah
A region near Geshur
Maacah (Maacath), a region near Geshur (Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5).
In the Bible
Strong H4601R appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- maacah2
- maachah1
- maachathites1
First verses
- Joshua 13:13Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
- 2 Samuel 10:6And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth–rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish–tob twelve thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 10:8And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish–tob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
- 1 Chronicles 19:7So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.