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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4279

מָחָר

macharmaw-khar'

tomorrow

52 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: mâchâr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4279is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4279

properly, deferred, i.e. the morrow; usually (adverbially) tomorrow; indefinitely, hereafter

The King James renders it: time to come, tomorrow.

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

machar is rendered "tomorrow". It stands 52 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:33So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”

Genesis 30:33מָחָ֔ר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

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

The other 25 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • tomorrow39
  • and tomorrow6
  • for tomorrow3
  • in future time2
  • to tomorrow2

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.

מָחָהmachahto wipeUses36
מָחָאmachato clapUses3

The words it stands beside

All 52, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 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

  • מָחָר֙9
  • מָחָ֗ר7
  • מָחָ֖ר7
  • מָחָ֔ר6
  • מָחָ֑ר4
  • מָחָֽר׃3
  • וּמָחָ֕ר2
  • וּמָחָ֥ר2
  • לְמָחָ֑ר2
  • מָחָ֛ר2
  • וּמָחָ֑ר1
  • וּמָחָ֣ר1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular41HNcmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular6HC/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular5HR/Ncmsa

Genesis

one use
  • So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”

    Genesis 30:33

    • מָחָ֔רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: in future time

Exodus

eleven uses
  • “Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.

    Exodus 8:10

    • לְמָחָ֑רlemacharpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to tomorrow
  • I will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.’”

    Exodus 8:23

    • לְמָחָ֥רlemacharpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to tomorrow
  • “As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”

    Exodus 8:29

    • מָחָ֑רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”

    Exodus 9:5

    • מָחָ֗רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

    Exodus 9:18

    • מָחָ֔רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

    Exodus 10:4

    • מָחָ֛רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    Exodus 13:14

    • מָחָ֖רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: in future time
  • He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”

    Exodus 16:23

    • מָחָ֑רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”

    Exodus 17:9

    • מָחָ֗רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes

    Exodus 19:10

    • וּמָחָ֑רumacharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tomorrow
  • When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”

    Exodus 32:5

    • מָחָֽר׃macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

Numbers

four uses
  • And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

    Numbers 11:18

    • לְמָחָר֮lemacharpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for tomorrow
  • Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

    Numbers 14:25

    • מָחָ֗רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • and tomorrow you are to place fire and incense in them in the presence of the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. It is you sons of Levi who have taken too much upon yourselves!”

    Numbers 16:7

    • מָחָ֔רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • And Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow—you and they and Aaron.

    Numbers 16:16

    • מָחָֽר׃macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

Deuteronomy

one use
  • In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

    Deuteronomy 6:20

    • מָחָ֖רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

Joshua

nine uses
  • Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

    Joshua 3:5

    • מָחָ֗רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

    Joshua 4:6

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

    Joshua 4:21

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.

    Joshua 7:13

    • לְמָחָ֑רlemacharpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for tomorrow
  • Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.”

    Joshua 11:6

    • מָחָ֞רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • And now, would you turn away from the LORD? If you rebel today against the LORD, tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

    Joshua 22:18

    • וּמָחָ֕רumacharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tomorrow
  • But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?

    Joshua 22:24

    • מָחָ֗רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’

    Joshua 22:27

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Therefore we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD that our fathers made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’

    Joshua 22:28

    • מָחָ֑רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

Judges

two uses
  • When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”

    Judges 19:9

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

    Judges 20:28

    • מָחָ֖רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

1 Samuel

eight uses
  • “At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”

    1 Samuel 9:16

    • מָחָ֡רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • So they said to the messengers who had come, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” And when the messengers relayed this to the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced.

    1 Samuel 11:9

    • מָחָ֛רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Then the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Tomorrow we will come out, and you can do with us whatever seems good to you.”

    1 Samuel 11:10

    • מָחָ֖רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

    1 Samuel 19:11

    • מָחָ֖רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.

    1 Samuel 20:5

    • מָחָ֔רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?

    1 Samuel 20:12

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.

    1 Samuel 20:18

    • מָחָ֣רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Moreover, the LORD will deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. And the LORD will deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.”

    1 Samuel 28:19

    • וּמָחָ֕רumacharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tomorrow

2 Samuel

one use
  • “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

    2 Samuel 11:12

    • וּמָחָ֣רumacharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tomorrow

1 Kings

two uses
  • So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the lives of those you killed!”

    1 Kings 19:2

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • But about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to search your palace and the houses of your servants. They will seize and carry away all that is precious to you.’”

    1 Kings 20:6

    • מָחָ֗רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

2 Kings

four uses
  • Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’

    2 Kings 6:28

    • מָחָֽר׃macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”

    2 Kings 7:1

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”

    2 Kings 7:18

    • מָחָ֔רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.

    2 Kings 10:6

    • מָחָ֖רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • Tomorrow you are to march down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel.

    2 Chronicles 20:16

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • You need not fight this battle. Take up your positions, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.’”

    2 Chronicles 20:17

    • מָחָר֙macharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

Esther

three uses
  • If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”

    Esther 5:8

    • וּמָחָ֥רumacharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tomorrow
  • “What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.

    Esther 5:12

    • לְמָחָ֛רlemacharpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: for tomorrow
  • Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

    Esther 9:13

    • מָחָ֗רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

Proverbs

two uses
  • Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”—when you already have the means.

    Proverbs 3:28

    • וּמָחָ֥רumacharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and tomorrow
  • Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

    Proverbs 27:1

    • מָחָ֑רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

Isaiah

two uses
  • But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

    Isaiah 22:13

    • מָחָ֖רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow
  • “Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

    Isaiah 56:12

    • מָחָ֔רmacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: tomorrow

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

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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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