Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H4223
מְחָא
mechamekh-aw'
to smite
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉchâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4223is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4223
to strike in pieces; also to arrest; specifically to impale
The King James renders it: hang, smite, stay.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mecha is rendered "to smite". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 6:11I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.
Ezra 6:11יִתְמְחֵ֣א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and it struck1
- he will strike1
- it struck1
- let him be impaled1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּמְחָ֤ת1
- יְמַחֵ֣א1
- יִתְמְחֵ֣א1
- מְחָ֣ת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AC/Vqp3fs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVpi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AVqp3fs
- verb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVui3ms
Ezra
one use
I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.
- יִתְמְחֵ֣אyitmeche'verb · hothpaal, yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let him be impaled
Daniel
three uses
As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
- וּמְחָ֤תumechatconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and it struck
Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
- מְחָ֣תmechatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it struck
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- יְמַחֵ֣אyemache'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will strike
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.