Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4248
מַחְלוֹן
Machlonmakh-lone'
Mahlon
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Machlôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4248is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4248
Machlon, an Israelite
The King James renders it: Mahlon.
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
Machlon is rendered "Mahlon". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Ruth, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ruth 1:2The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
Ruth 1:2מַחְל֤וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Ruth.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Mahlon3
- and Mahlon1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַחְתָּה | machtah | censer | Uses22 |
| מַחְמָד | machmad | desire | Uses13 |
| מַחְסוֹר | machsor | need | Uses13 |
| מַחְבֶּרֶת | machbereth | joining | Uses8 |
| מַחְשָׁךְ | machshak | darkness | Uses7 |
| מַחְצֵב | machtseb | hewing | Uses3 |
| מַחְלִי | Machli | Mahlite | Uses2 |
| מַחְלָפָה | machlaphah | lock | Uses2 |
| מַחְתֶּרֶת | machtereth | breaking | Uses2 |
| מַחְלֻי | machluy | suffering | Uses1 |
| מַחְמֻד | machmud | desirable | Uses1 |
| מַחְמָל | machmal | compassion | Uses1 |
and 3 more on 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
- וּמַחְל֑וֹן1
- מַחְל֤וֹן1
- מַחְל֣וֹן1
- מַחְל֜וֹן1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)3HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
Ruth
four uses
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
- מַחְל֤וֹןmachlonproper noun (a name)tagged: Mahlon
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
- מַחְל֣וֹןmachlonproper noun (a name)tagged: Mahlon
At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
- וּמַחְל֑וֹןumachlonconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mahlon
Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
- מַחְל֜וֹןmachlonproper noun (a name)tagged: Mahlon
The letters
Gematria 134· 784 mispar gadol
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.