Macac means “faint” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4549 — saoul (“Saul”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4549 מָסַס (macac) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. macac (maw-sas') v. 1. to liquefy 2. (figuratively) to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief) It has 20 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include melted, melt, faint, loosed, and melteth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
macac (maw-sas') v. 1. to liquefy 2. (figuratively) to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief) [a primitive root] KJV: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, X utterly.
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to melt
Usage: 1) to dissolve, melt 1a) (Qal) to waste away 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to melt, vanish, drop off, melt away 1b2) to faint, grow fearful (fig.) 1b3) wasted, worthless (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to melt
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render macac, 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.
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20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4549.
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
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Macac (Strong's H4549) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "faint". macac (maw-sas') v. 1. to liquefy 2. (figuratively) to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H4549 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4549 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as melted, melt, faint, loosed, melteth, and fainteth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.