Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4318
מִיכָה
Mikahmee-kaw'
Micah
33 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Mîykâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4318is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4318
Micah, the name of seven Israelites
The King James renders it: Micah, Micaiah, Michah.
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
Mikah is rendered "Micah". It stands 33 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 17:5Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
Judges 17:5מִיכָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nineteen of the word's thirty-three uses are in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Micah31
- O Micah1
- to Micah1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִיכָל | mikal | brook | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 33, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- מִיכָ֔ה7
- מִיכָה֙5
- מִיכָ֑ה5
- מִיכָ֖ה4
- מִיכָֽה׃3
- מִיכָ֜ה2
- מִיכָ֗ה2
- לְמִיכָ֔ה1
- מִיכָ֥ה1
- מִיכָ֣ה1
- מִ֠יכָה1
- מִיכָֽה׃ ס1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)32HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
Judges
nineteen uses
Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
- מִיכָ֔הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
- מִיכָ֖הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”
- מִיכָ֖הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
“Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in
- מִיכָ֜הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.
- מִיכָה֙mikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
- מִיכָֽה׃mikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
- מִיכָ֔הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
- מִיכָ֔הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
And while they were near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?”
- מִיכָ֔הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”
- מִיכָ֑הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
And from there they traveled to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah’s house.
- מִיכָֽה׃mikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
- מִיכָ֑הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
- מִיכָ֔הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
After they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men in the houses near Micah’s house mobilized and overtook the Danites.
- מִיכָ֑הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
- מִיכָ֔הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”
- לְמִיכָ֔הlemikhahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Micah
So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
- מִיכָ֗הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
- מִיכָ֗הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
- מִיכָ֖הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
1 Chronicles
nine uses
Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
- מִיכָ֥הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
The son of Jonathan: Merib-baal, and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.
- מִיכָֽה׃ סmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
- מִיכָ֑הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
The son of Jonathan: Merib-baal, who was the father of Micah.
- מִיכָֽה׃mikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
- מִיכָ֑הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
The sons of Uzziel: Micah was the first and Isshiah the second.
- מִיכָ֣הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
From the sons of Uzziel: Micah; from the sons of Micah: Shamir.
- מִיכָ֔הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
- מִיכָ֖הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
The brother of Micah: Isshiah; from the sons of Isshiah: Zechariah.
- מִיכָה֙mikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
2 Chronicles
two uses
When Micaiah arrived, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should we refrain?” “Go up and triumph,” Micaiah replied, “for they will be given into your hand.”
- מִיכָה֙mikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: O Micah
and commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:
- מִיכָ֜הmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
Nehemiah
one use
Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
- מִ֠יכָהmikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
Jeremiah
one use
“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’
- מִיכָה֙mikhayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
Micah
one use
This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:
- מִיכָה֙mikhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Micah
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.