Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4224
מַחֲבֵא
machabemakh-ab-ay'
hiding-place; refuge
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: machăbêʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4224is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4224
a refuge
The King James renders it: hiding (lurking) place.
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
machabe is rendered "hiding-place; refuge". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "hiding-place".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 23:23Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
1 Samuel 23:23הַמַּֽחֲבֹאִים֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: hiding-place, and refuge.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| hiding-placeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Samuel 23:23Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty… |
| refugeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like a hiding place of1
- the hiding places1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחֲנֶה | machaneh | camp | Uses215 |
| מַחֲשָׁבָה | machashabah | plot | Uses56 |
| מַחֲלֹקֶת | machaloqeth | division | Uses42 |
| מַחֲסֶה | machaseh | refuge | Uses20 |
| מַחֲצִית | machatsith | half | Uses16 |
| מַחֲלֶה | machaleh | sickness | Uses6 |
| מַחֲבַת | machabath | griddle | Uses5 |
| מַחֲזֶה | machazeh | vision | Uses4 |
| מַחֲרֵשָׁה | machareshah | plowshare | Uses3 |
| מַחֲלָצָה | machalatsah | robe | Uses2 |
| מַחֲלָף | machalaph | knife | Uses1 |
| מַחֲנַק | machanaq | strangling | Uses1 |
and 6 more on the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- הַמַּֽחֲבֹאִים֙1
- כְּמַֽחֲבֵא־1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
1 Samuel
one use
Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
- הַמַּֽחֲבֹאִים֙hamachavoimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the hiding places
Isaiah
one use
Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
- כְּמַֽחֲבֵא־kemachave'-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a hiding place of
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.