To bruise
מָעַךְStrong’s H4600maakh (ma-akh)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “is squashed”, “thrust” and “were handled”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.”
Meaning
- To press, squeeze(Qal) to be crushed · (Pual) to be handled, be pressed
How it's translated
- and is squashed 1
- thrust 1
- they were handled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 26:7So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
- Ezekiel 23:3And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Hebrew dictionary
מָעַךְ maakh · to bruise
1) to press, squeeze 1a) (Qal) to be crushed 1b) (Pual) to be handled, be pressed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bruise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRUISE, verb transitive
s as z. To crush by beating or pounding with an instrument not edged or pointed. When applied to animal flesh or to vegetables, a bruise is a contusion that impairs the natural solidity and texture of the part, but often without breaking the skin. When applied to minerals and similar substances, it signifies to break them, and often to reduce them to a coarse powder.
All definitions and other forms of “bruise”
BRUISE, noun
A contusion; a hurt upon the flesh of animals, upon plants or other bodies, with a blunt or heavy instrument.
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.