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Strong's H4347 מַכָּה (makkah)

Makkah means “wound” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G4347 — proskollao (“cleave”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H4347
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 46
Books 17

Strong's H4347 Quick Answer

Strong's H4347 מַכָּה מַכֶּה (makkah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. makkah (mak-kaw') (or (masculine) makkeh {muk-keh'}) n-f. 1. a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2 2. (by implication) a wound It has 46 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include wound, wounds, also, wounded, and blow. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
makkah (mak-kaw') (or (masculine) makkeh {muk-keh'}) n-f. 1. a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2 2. (by implication) a wound
Usage
46 linked usages
Books
17 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
wound, wounds, also, wounded, and blow

Meaning and Definition

makkah (mak-kaw') (or (masculine) makkeh {muk-keh'}) n-f. 1. a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2 2. (by implication) a wound 3. (figuratively) carnage, also pestilence [(plural only) from H5221] KJV: beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, X sore, stripe, stroke, wound((-ed)). Root(s): H5221

Original Word
מַכָּה מַכֶּה
Transliteration
makkah
Derivation
Root: נכה First root strongs: 5221
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4347. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H4347 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render makkah, 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.

wound 1 Kings 22:35 wounds 2 Kings 8:29 Also Deuteronomy 28:61 blow Jeremiah 14:17 wounded Psalms 64:7

How Strong's H4347 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 46 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H4347 by Corpus

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.

Strong's H4347 in the Old Testament

46 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Leviticus 26:21 KJV

And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

Numbers 11:33 KJV

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.

Deuteronomy 25:3 KJV

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

Usage Excerpts

First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4347.

Leviticus 26:21 Old Testament, KJV
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
Numbers 11:33 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Deuteronomy 25:3 Old Testament, KJV
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Deuteronomy 28:59 Old Testament, KJV
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deuteronomy 28:61 Old Testament, KJV
Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 29:22 Old Testament, KJV
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 of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
Joshua 10:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
Joshua 10:20 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.
Judges 11:33 Old Testament, KJV
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. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
Judges 15:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
1 Samuel 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 in the wilderness.
1 Samuel 4:10 Old Testament, KJV
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1 Samuel 6:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, 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.
1 Samuel 14:14 Old Testament, KJV
And that first slaughter, 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 Old Testament, KJV
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 among the Philistines?
1 Samuel 19:8 Old Testament, KJV
And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
1 Samuel 23:5 Old Testament, KJV
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. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Kings 20:21 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
1 Kings 22:35 Old Testament, KJV
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 into the midst of the chariot.
2 Kings 8:29 Old Testament, KJV
And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds 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 Old Testament, KJV
But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds 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 Old Testament, KJV
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2 Chronicles 13:17 Old Testament, KJV
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2 Chronicles 22:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds 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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Esther 9:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
Psalms 64:7 Old Testament, KJV
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
Proverbs 20:30 Old Testament, KJV
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Isaiah 1:6 Old Testament, KJV
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Isaiah 10:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter 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 Old Testament, KJV
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Isaiah 27:7 Old Testament, KJV
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
Isaiah 30:26 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 10:19 Old Testament, KJV
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Jeremiah 14:17 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Jeremiah 15:18 Old Testament, KJV
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Jeremiah 19:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 thereof.
Jeremiah 30:12 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
Jeremiah 30:14 Old Testament, KJV
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Jeremiah 30:17 Old Testament, KJV
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Jeremiah 49:17 Old Testament, KJV
Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Jeremiah 50:13 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Micah 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Nahum 3:19 Old Testament, KJV
There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound 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 Old Testament, KJV
And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4347, grouped by book.

Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 7 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H4347 FAQ

What does makkah (מַכָּה) mean?

Makkah (Strong's H4347) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "wound". makkah (mak-kaw') (or (masculine) makkeh {muk-keh'}) n-f. 1. a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2 2. (by implication) a wound

How many times is makkah (מַכָּה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's H4347 across 17 books.

Where can I study makkah (מַכָּה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4347 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate makkah (מַכָּה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as wound, wounds, also, wounded, and blow. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.