Maacathite
מַעֲכָתִיStrong’s H4602maakhati (ma-a-kha-ti)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maakhati is the Hebrew word usually translated “maacathite”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.”
Meaning
- Group of ma.a.khah (מַעֲכָה "Maacah" H4601R)
How it's translated
- the maacathite 5
- and the maacathite 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 12:5And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
- Joshua 13:11And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
- Joshua 13:13Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
- 2 Samuel 23:34Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
- 2 Kings 25:23And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
- 1 Chronicles 4:19And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲכָתִי maakhati · Maacathite
Group of ma.a.khah (מַעֲכָה "Maacah" H4601R) § Maachathite = "pressure (literally she has pressed)" a people dwelling in Transjordan, probably descendants of Maachah
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.