Michal
מִיכַלStrong’s H4324mikhal (mi-khal)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mikhal is the Hebrew word usually translated “michal”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:”
Meaning
- A woman of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.14.49
How it's translated
- michal 14
- and michal 3
- and to michal 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 9
- 2 Samuel 7
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 18:20And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
- 1 Samuel 18:27Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
- 1 Samuel 18:28And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
- 1 Samuel 19:11Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
- 1 Samuel 19:12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
- 1 Samuel 19:13And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
Hebrew dictionary
מִיכַל mikhal · Michal
A woman of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.14.49; daughter of: Saul (H7586G) and Ahinoam (H0293); married to David (H1732) and Palti (H6406H); sister of: Jonathan (H3083H), Abinadab (H0041H), Malchi-shua (H4444) and Merab (H4764); half-brother of: Ish-bosheth (H0378), Armoni (H0764) and Mephibosheth (H4648H) § Michal = "who is like God" …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.