Michmash
מִכְמָס, מִכְמָשׂStrong’s H4363mikhmas (mikh-mas)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mikhmas is the Hebrew word usually translated “micmash”, “at micmash” and “from micmash”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.”
Meaning
- § Michmas or Michmash = "hidden"
How it's translated
- micmash 6
- at micmash 2
- in micmash 1
- from micmash 1
- to micmash 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 7
- Nehemiah 2
- Ezra 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 13:5And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
- 1 Samuel 13:11And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
- 1 Samuel 13:16And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 13:23And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 14:5The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
- 1 Samuel 14:31And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
Hebrew dictionary
מִכְמָס, מִכְמָשׂ mikhmas · Michmash
§ Michmas or Michmash = "hidden" a city in Benjamin lying near Ramah and approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of Jerusalem; probably modern 'Mukhmas'
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.