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Isaiah 27:7
“Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מַכָּהmakkâh · mak-kaw'
H4347 · Hebrew
H4347 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
- Derivation
- or (masculine) מַכֶּה; (plural only) from H5221 (נָכָה); a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication,
- KJV renderings
- beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, [idiom] sore, stripe, stroke, wound(-ed).
- Grammar
- הַ — particle (interrogative)
- כְּ — preposition
- מַכַּ֥ת — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 48 times in the Hebrew Bible.Leviticus 26:21Numbers 11:33Deuteronomy 25:3Deuteronomy 28:59Deuteronomy 28:59
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מַכָּה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.