Machăbêʼ — H4224
H4224 · Hebrew — מחבא
Pronunciation: makh-ab-ay'
Other spellings: machăbôʼ מַחֲבֹא
Definition
masculine noun
a refuge
- hiding place
- (TWOT) bosom
Usually translated as
place, hiding
Origin
or machăbôʼ; from H2244
Occurrences
Machăbêʼ occurs 2 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (1), Isaiah (1)
- 1 Samuel 23:23 — See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places (הַמַּֽחֲבֹאִים֙) where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
- Isaiah 32:2 — And a man shall be as an hiding place (כְּמַֽחֲבֵא) from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Strong's Lexicon — M