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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 35
    spellings
  • 3
    meanings

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

The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

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

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to wipeStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 6:7So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created…
to strikeStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below
be marrowStrong's entry CTagged aslisted under the tableWherein 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.

מָחָרmachartomorrowUses52
מָחָאmachato clapUses3

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.”

    Genesis 6:7

    • 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.”

    Genesis 7:4

    • 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.

    Genesis 7:23

    • 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.”

    Exodus 17:14

    • 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.”

    Exodus 32:32

    • 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.

    Exodus 32:33

    • 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.

    Numbers 5:23

    • 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.

    Numbers 34:11

    • 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.”

    Deuteronomy 9:14

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 25:6

    • 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!

    Deuteronomy 25:19

    • 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

    Deuteronomy 29:20

    • 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.

    Judges 21:17

    • 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.

    2 Kings 14:27

    • 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.

    2 Kings 21:13

    • 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.

    Nehemiah 4:5

    • 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.

    Nehemiah 13:14

    • 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.

    Psalms 9:5

    • 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.

    Psalms 51:1

    • מְחֵ֣הmechehverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: wipe out
  • Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

    Psalms 51:9

    • 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.

    Psalms 69:28

    • 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.

    Psalms 109:13

    • 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.

    Psalms 109:14

    • 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.

    Proverbs 6:33

    • 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.’

    Proverbs 30:20

    • 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.

    Proverbs 31:3

    • 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.

    Isaiah 25:6

    • 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.

    Isaiah 25:8

    • 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.

    Isaiah 43:25

    • 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.

    Isaiah 44:22

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 18:23

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 6:6

    • וְנִמְח֖וּvenimchuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be wiped out

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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