Mâʻak — H4600

Definition

verb

to press, i.e. to pierce, emasculate, handle

1. to press, squeeze
1. (Qal) to be crushed
2. (Pual) to be handled, be pressed

Usually translated as

bruised, stuck, be pressed

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• píptō (G4098)

Occurrences

Mâʻak occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1), 1 Samuel (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Leviticus 22:24 — Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised (וּמָע֤וּךְ), or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
• 1 Samuel 26:7 — So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck (מְעוּכָֽה) in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
• Ezekiel 23:3 — And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed (מֹעֲכ֣וּ), and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.