Maʻăkâh — H4601

Definition

masculine proper noun

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

1. Maachah = "oppression"
2. n pr m
3. father of Achish, king of Gath at the beginning of Solomon's reign
4. father of Hanan, one of David's mighty warriors
5. a Simeonite, father of Shephatiah, prince of his tribe in the reign of David
6. son of Nahor by concubine Reumah
7. n pr f
8. daughter of king Talmai of Geshur, wife or David, and mother of Absalom
9. daughter of Absalom, wife of king Rehoboam of Judah, and mother of king Abijam of Judah
10. concubine of Caleb the son of Hezron
11. wife of Machir of the tribe of Manasseh
12. wife of Jehiel, father of Gibeon
13. Maachathites = "pressure (literally she has pressed)"
14. n pr
15. a mercenary people hired to fight David

Usually translated as

Maachah, Maachathites

Origin

or Maʻăkâth; (Joshua 13:13), from H4600; depression

• Derived from Mâʻak (H4600)

Occurrences

Maʻăkâh occurs 22 times in 23 verses of the King James.

Plus 1 use with no word of its own in the translation, shown at the end of the list.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Joshua (1), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (4), 1 Chronicles (10), 2 Chronicles (4)

• Genesis 22:24 — And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah (מַעֲכָֽה).
• Joshua 13:13 — Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites (וּמַֽעֲכָת֙) dwell among the Israelites until this day.
• 2 Samuel 3:3 — And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah (מַעֲכָ֔ה) the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
• 2 Samuel 10:6 — And 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 (מַֽעֲכָה֙) a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
• 2 Samuel 10:8 — And 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 (וּמַֽעֲכָ֔ה), were by themselves in the field.
• 1 Kings 2:39 — And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah (מַעֲכָ֖ה) king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
• 1 Kings 15:2 — Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah (מַעֲכָ֖ה), the daughter of Abishalom.
• 1 Kings 15:10 — And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah (מַעֲכָ֖ה), the daughter of Abishalom.
• 1 Kings 15:13 — And also Maachah (מַעֲכָ֣ה) his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
• 1 Chronicles 2:48 — Maachah (מַעֲכָ֔ה), Caleb’s concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
• 1 Chronicles 3:2 — The third, Absalom the son of Maachah (מַעֲכָ֔ה) the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:
• 1 Chronicles 7:16 — And Maachah (מַעֲכָ֤ה) the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
• 1 Chronicles 8:29 — And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife’s name was Maachah (מַעֲכָֽה):
• 1 Chronicles 9:35 — And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s name was Maachah (מַעֲכָֽה):
• 1 Chronicles 11:43 — Hanan the son of Maachah (מַעֲכָ֔ה), and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
• 1 Chronicles 19:6 — And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah (מַעֲכָה֙), and out of Zobah.
• 1 Chronicles 19:7 — So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah (מַעֲכָה֙) and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
• 1 Chronicles 27:16 — Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah (מַעֲכָֽה):
• 2 Chronicles 11:20 — And after her he took Maachah (מַעֲכָ֖ה) the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
• 2 Chronicles 11:21 — And Rehoboam loved Maachah (מַעֲכָ֣ה) the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
• 2 Chronicles 11:22 — And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah (מַעֲכָ֖ה) the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
• 2 Chronicles 15:16 — And also concerning Maachah (מַעֲכָ֞ה) the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
• 1 Chronicles 7:15 — And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters. (מַעֲכָ֔ה)