Desirable
מַחְמֹדStrong’s H4262machmud (mach-mud)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Machmud is the Hebrew word usually translated “precious things her”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.”
Meaning
- Desirable, precious thing
How it's translated
- precious things her 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַחְמֹד machmud · desirable
desirable, precious thing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “desirable” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESIRABLE, adjective
- Worthy of desire; that is to be wished for with sincerity or earnestness.
- Pleasing; agreeable.“All of them desirable young men” Ezekiel 23:6
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.