Wound
מַכָּהStrong’s H4347makkah (mak-kah)
Appears in 46 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Makkah is the Hebrew word usually translated “defeat”, “wounds” and “wounds its”. It appears in 46 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Blow, wound, slaughterblow, stripe · beating, scourging · wound · slaughter · defeat, conquest · plague
How it's translated
- a defeat 7
- the wounds 4
- wounds its 4
- a blow 3
- plagues of 2
- plague 2
- the slaughter 2
- and wound 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 10
- 1 Samuel 7
- Isaiah 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Joshua 2
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:21And 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 11:33And 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 25:3Forty 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 28:59Then 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 28:61Also 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 29:22So 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;
All 46 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מַכָּה makkah · wound
1) blow, wound, slaughter 1a) blow, stripe 1b) beating, scourging 1c) wound 1d) slaughter 1e) defeat, conquest 1f) plague
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.