Word Study · Strong's H4324 · Hebrew
מִיכָל
Mikal
me-kawl'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Mîykâl
“Mikal, Saul's daughter”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Mikal, Saul's daughter
Rendered in the KJV as
Michal.
- 18occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 13inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 18 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 13
- מִיכַ֥ל3
- וּמִיכַ֨ל2
- מִיכַ֤ל2
- מִיכַ֣ל2
- וּלְמִיכַל֙1
- וּמִיכַ֥ל1
- מִיכַ֛ל1
- מִיכַ֜ל1
- מִיכַ֗ל1
- מִיכַל֙1
- מִיכַ֔ל1
- מִיכַל֒1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 4
- Michal13
- and Michal3
- [was] Michal1
- and to Michal1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- proper noun (a name)14
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpf · 14
- HC/Npf · 3
- HC/R/Npf · 1
All 18, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
1 Samuel10 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 14:49מִיכַֽל׃mikhalproper noun (a name)Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).here: [was] Michal
- 1 Samuel 18:20מִיכַ֥לmikhalproper noun (a name)Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.here: Michal
- 1 Samuel 18:27מִיכַ֥לmikhalproper noun (a name)David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.here: Michal
- 1 Samuel 18:28וּמִיכַ֥לumikhalconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,here: and Michal
- 1 Samuel 19:11מִיכַ֤לmikhalproper noun (a name)Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”here: Michal
- 1 Samuel 19:12מִיכַ֛לmikhalproper noun (a name)So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.here: Michal
- 1 Samuel 19:13מִיכַ֜לmikhalproper noun (a name)Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.here: Michal
- 1 Samuel 19:17מִיכַ֗לmikhalproper noun (a name)And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”here: Michal
- 1 Samuel 19:17מִיכַל֙mikhalproper noun (a name)And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”here: Michal
- 1 Samuel 25:44מִיכַ֥לmikhalproper noun (a name)But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.here: Michal
2 Samuel7 occurrences
- 2 Samuel 3:13מִיכַ֣לmikhalproper noun (a name)“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”here: Michal
- 2 Samuel 3:14מִיכַ֔לmikhalproper noun (a name)Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”here: Michal
- 2 Samuel 6:16וּמִיכַ֨לumikhalconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.here: and Michal
- 2 Samuel 6:20מִיכַ֤לmikhalproper noun (a name)As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”here: Michal
- 2 Samuel 6:21מִיכַל֒mikhalproper noun (a name)But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,here: Michal
- 2 Samuel 6:23וּלְמִיכַל֙ulemikhalconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.here: and to Michal
- 2 Samuel 21:8מִיכַ֣לmikhalproper noun (a name)But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.here: Michal
Same headword in Strong's