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Place

מָקוֹםStrong’s H4725

maqom (ma-qom)

Appears in 379 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Maqom is the Hebrew word usually translated “place”, “place of” and “places”. It appears in 379 verses of the Old Testament.

“All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.”
Zechariah 14:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. Standing place, placestanding place, station, post, office · place, place of human abode · city, land, region · place, locality, spot · space, room, distance · region, quarter, direction · give place to, instead of
How it's translated
  • the place 129
  • in the place 32
  • a place 27
  • place of 25
  • place 23
  • the places 14
  • in a place 13
  • place its 12

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 44
  • Jeremiah 43
  • Deuteronomy 33
  • Leviticus 23
  • 1 Samuel 23
  • Job 21

33 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 379 verses, by book
Esther 3
4:34:148:17
Proverbs 3
15:325:627:8
Hosea 2
1:105:15
Joel 1
3:7
Amos 2
4:68:3
Micah 1
1:3
Nahum 2
1:83:17
Zephaniah 2
1:42:11
Haggai 1
2:9
Zechariah 1
14:10
Malachi 1
1:11
Hebrew dictionary

מָקוֹם maqom · place

1) standing place, place 1a) standing place, station, post, office 1b) place, place of human abode 1c) city, land, region 1d) place, locality, spot 1e) space, room, distance 1f) region, quarter, direction 1g) give place to, instead of

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “place” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PLACE, noun

  1. A particular portion of space of indefinite extent, occupied or intended to be occupied by any person or thing, and considered as the space where a person or thing does or may rest or has rested, as distinct from space in general.“Look from the place where thou art” Genesis 13:14“The place where thou standest is holy ground” Exodus 3:5“David's place was empty” 1 Samuel 20:25
  2. Any portion of space, as distinct from space in general.“Enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place” Esther 4:14
  3. Local existence.“From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them” Revelation 20:11
  4. Separate room or apartment.
All definitions and other forms of “place”
  1. Seat; residence; mansion.“The Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation” John 11:48
  2. A portion or passage of writing or of a book.“The place of the Scripture which he read was this” Acts 8:32
  3. Point or degree in order of proceeding; as in the first place; in the second place; in the last place Hence,
  4. Rank; order of priority, dignity or importance.
  5. Office, employment; official station.
  6. Ground; room.
  7. Station in life; calling; occupation; condition.
  8. A city, a town; a village. Genesis 18:24
  9. In military affairs, a fortified town or post; a fortress; a fort; as a strong place; a place easily defended.
  10. A country; a kingdom.
  11. Space in general.
  12. Room; stead; with the sense of substitution.
  13. Room; kind reception.“My word hath no place in you” John 8:37
  14. The place of the moon, in astronomy, is the part of its orbit where it is found at any given time.
  15. To take the precedence or priority.
  16. To have actual existence.
  17. To give room; to give advantage; to yield to the influence of; to listen to.“Neither give place to the devil” Ephesians 4:27
  18. To give way; to yield to and suffer to pass away.

PLACE, verb transitive

To put or set in a particular part of space, or in a particular part of the earth, or in something on its surface; to locate; as, to place a house by the side of a stream; to place a book on a shelf; to place a body of cavalry on each flank of any army.

  1. To appoint, set, induct or establish in an office.“Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, etc” Exodus 18:21
  2. To put or set in any particular rank, state or condition.
  3. To set; to fix; as, to place one's affections on an object; to place confidence in a friend.
  4. To put; to invest; as, to place money in the funds or in a bank.
  5. To put out at interest; to lend; as, to place money in good hands or in good security.

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.