Hebrew verb · H4229
מָחָה
machahmaw-khaw'
to wipe; to strike; be marrow
36 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâchâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4229is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 35spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4229
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
The King James renders it: abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, [idiom] utterly, wipe (away, out).
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
machah is rendered "to wipe; to strike; be marrow". It stands 36 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "to wipe".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:7So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
- The Greek text spells it thirty-five different ways.
The first use
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:7אֶמְחֶ֨ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: to wipe, and to strike, and be marrow.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to wipeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 6:7So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created… |
| to strikeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| be marrowStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it be wiped out2
- it will be wiped out2
- wipe out2
- you wipe out2
- and he will wipe away1
- and he will wipe off1
- and he will wipe out1
- and he wiped out1
- and I may wipe out1
- and I will wipe1
- and I will wipe clean1
- and it will reach1
and 20 more, 36 uses in all
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 36, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
35 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
- יִמָּחֶ֥ה2
- אֶמְחֶ֨ה1
- אֶמְחֶה֙1
- אֶמְחֶ֖נּוּ1
- וְאֶמְחֶ֣ה1
- וַיִּ֜מַח1
- וַיִּמָּח֖וּ1
- וּמָחָ֖ה1
- וּמָחָ֛ה1
- וּמָחָ֤ה1
- וּמָחָ֨ה1
- וּמָחִ֗יתִי1
and 23 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq3ms4Hc/Vqq3ms
- Hc/Vqq1cs2Hc/Vqq1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqv2ms
- Hc/VNq3cp1Hc/VNq3cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/Vqp3fs
- HC/Vqu1cs1HC/Vqu1cs
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vhcc
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
Genesis
four uses
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
- אֶמְחֶ֨הʾemchehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will wipe
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
- וּמָחִ֗יתִיumachitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will wipe
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
- וַיִּ֜מַחvaiyimachHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he wiped out
- וַיִּמָּח֖וּvaiyimachuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they were wiped out
Exodus
four uses
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- מָחֹ֤הmachohverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to wipe out
- אֶמְחֶה֙ʾemchehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will wipe out
Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
- מְחֵ֣נִיmecheniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: wipe out me
The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
- אֶמְחֶ֖נּוּʾemchenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I will wipe out him
Numbers
two uses
And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
- וּמָחָ֖הumachahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wipe off
then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
- וּמָחָ֛הumachahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will reach
Deuteronomy
four uses
Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
- וְאֶמְחֶ֣הveemchehHC/Vqu1cstagged: and I may wipe out
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
- יִמָּחֶ֥הyimachehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be wiped out
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
- תִּמְחֶה֙timchehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will wipe out
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- וּמָחָ֤הumachahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wipe out
Judges
one use
They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.
- יִמָּחֶ֥הyimachehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be wiped out
2 Kings
four uses
and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.
- לִמְחוֹת֙limchotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wipe out
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
- וּמָחִ֨יתִיumachitiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will wipe clean
- יִמְחֶ֤הyimchehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone wipes clean
- מָחָ֔הmachahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he wipes clean
Nehemiah
two uses
Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
- תִּמָּחֶ֑הtimachehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it be wiped out
Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
- תֶּ֣מַחtemachverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you wipe out
Psalms
six uses
You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.
- מָ֝חִ֗יתָmachitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have wiped out
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
- מְחֵ֣הmechehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: wipe out
Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
- מְחֵֽה׃mechehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: wipe out
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
- יִ֭מָּחֽוּyimachuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: may they be wiped out
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
- יִמַּ֥חyimachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may it be wiped out
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
- תִּמָּֽח׃timachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it be wiped out
Proverbs
three uses
Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
- תִמָּחֶֽה׃timachehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be wiped away
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
- וּמָ֣חֲתָהumachatahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and she wipes clean
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
- לַֽמְח֥וֹתlamchotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wiping out
Isaiah
four uses
On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
- מְמֻ֣חָיִ֔םmemuchayimverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: full of marrow
He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- וּמָחָ֨הumachahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will wipe away
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- מֹחֶ֥הmochehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: wiping out
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- מָחִ֤יתִיmachitiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have wiped out
Jeremiah
one use
But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
- תֶּ֑מְחִיtemchiverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you wipe out
Ezekiel
one use
Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
- וְנִמְח֖וּvenimchuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be wiped out
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.
