Usually translated as
slaughter, wound, plague, stroke, beaten, blow, smote, wounded, sore, stripe
Occurrences
Makkâh occurs 48 times in 46 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (4), Joshua (2), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (7), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (4), Esther (1), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (10), Micah (1), Nahum (1), Zechariah (1)
- Leviticus 26:21 — And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues (מַכָּ֔ה) upon you according to your sins.
- Numbers 11:33 — And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague (מַכָּ֖ה).
- Deuteronomy 25:3 — Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes (מַכָּ֣ה), then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 28:59 — Then the LORD will make thy plagues (מַכֹּ֣תְךָ֔) wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Deuteronomy 28:59 — Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues (מַכּ֣וֹת) of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Deuteronomy 28:59 — Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues (מַכּ֤וֹת), and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Deuteronomy 28:61 — Also every sickness, and every plague (מַכָּ֔ה), which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 29:22 — So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues (מַכּ֞וֹת) of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
- Joshua 10:10 — And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter (מַכָּֽה) at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
- Joshua 10:20 — And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter (מַכָּ֥ה), till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.
- Judges 11:33 — And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter (מַכָּ֖ה). Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
- Judges 15:8 — And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter (מַכָּ֣ה): and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
- 1 Samuel 4:8 — Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues (מַכָּ֖ה) in the wilderness.
- 1 Samuel 4:10 — And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter (הַמַּכָּ֖ה); for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
- 1 Samuel 6:19 — And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter (מַכָּ֥ה).
- 1 Samuel 14:14 — And that first slaughter (הַמַּכָּ֣ה), which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
- 1 Samuel 14:30 — How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter (מַכָּ֖ה) among the Philistines?
- 1 Samuel 19:8 — And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter (מַכָּ֣ה); and they fled from him.
- 1 Samuel 23:5 — So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter (מַכָּ֣ה). So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
- 1 Kings 20:21 — And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter (מַכָּ֥ה).
- 1 Kings 22:35 — And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound (הַמַּכָּ֖ה) into the midst of the chariot.
- 2 Kings 8:29 — And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds (הַמַּכִּים֙) which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
- 2 Kings 9:15 — But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds (הַמַּכִּים֙) which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 — And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten (מַכּ֜וֹת) wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
- 2 Chronicles 13:17 — And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter (מַכָּ֣ה): so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
- 2 Chronicles 22:6 — And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds (הַמַּכִּים֙) which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.
- 2 Chronicles 28:5 — Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter (מַכָּ֥ה).
- Esther 9:5 — Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke (מַכַּת) of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
- Psalms 64:7 — But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded (מַכּוֹתָֽם).
- Proverbs 20:30 — The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes (וּ֝מַכּ֗וֹת) the inward parts of the belly.
- Isaiah 1:6 — From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores (וּמַכָּ֣ה): they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
- Isaiah 10:26 — And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter (כְּמַכַּ֥ת) of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
- Isaiah 14:6 — He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke (מַכַּ֖ת), he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
- Isaiah 27:7 — Hath he smitten him, as he smote (הַכְּמַכַּ֥ת) those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
- Isaiah 30:26 — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound (מַכָּת֖וֹ).
- Jeremiah 6:7 — As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds (וּמַכָּֽה).
- Jeremiah 10:19 — Woe is me for my hurt! my wound (מַכָּתִ֑י) is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
- Jeremiah 14:17 — Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow (מַכָּ֖ה).
- Jeremiah 15:18 — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound (וּמַכָּתִ֖י) incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
- Jeremiah 19:8 — And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues (מַכֹּתֶֽהָ) thereof.
- Jeremiah 30:12 — For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound (מַכָּתֵֽךְ) is grievous.
- Jeremiah 30:14 — All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound (מַכַּ֨ת) of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
- Jeremiah 30:17 — For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds (וּמִמַּכּוֹתַ֥יִךְ), saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
- Jeremiah 49:17 — Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues (מַכּוֹתֶֽהָ) thereof.
- Jeremiah 50:13 — Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues (מַכּוֹתֶֽיהָ).
- Micah 1:9 — For her wound (מַכּוֹתֶ֑יהָ) is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Nahum 3:19 — There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound (מַכָּתֶ֑ךָ) is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
- Zechariah 13:6 — And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds (הַמַּכּ֛וֹת) in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.