Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
blow
Usage: stroke (of a battering ram)
Mechi means “engines” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4239 — prays (“meek”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4239 מְחִי (mchiy) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mchiy (mekh-ee') n-m. 1. a stroke, i.e. battering-ram [from H4229] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include engines. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mchiy (mekh-ee') n-m. 1. a stroke, i.e. battering-ram [from H4229] KJV: engines. Root(s): H4229
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4239. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
blow
Usage: stroke (of a battering ram)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mchiy, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H4239.
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4239, grouped by book.
Mechi (Strong's H4239) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "engines". mchiy (mekh-ee') n-m. 1. a stroke, i.e. battering-ram [from H4229]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H4239 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4239 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as engines. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.