Wound
מַ֫חַץStrong’s H4273machats (ma-chats)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Machats is the Hebrew word usually translated “wound of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Severe wound, contusion
How it's translated
- and wound of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַ֫חַץ machats · wound
severe wound, contusion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wound” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WOUND, noun
[G.]
- A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force.
- Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.
All definitions and other forms of “wound”
WOUND, verb transitive
To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.
- “He was wounded for our transgressions” Isaiah 53:5
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.