Word Study · Strong's H4323 · Hebrew

מִיכָל

mikal

me-kawl'

Strong's 1890 spelling: mîykâl

“properly, a container, i.e. a streamlet”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

properly, a container, i.e. a streamlet

Rendered in the KJV as

brook.

1
occurrencein the Old Testament
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Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
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inflected formdistinct spellings

Across 1 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 1

מִיכַ֣ל1

How it is rendered · 1

[the] brook of1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 1

noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1

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2 Samuel1 occurrence

2 Samuel 17:20מִיכַ֣לmikhalnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.here: [the] brook of

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled מִיכָל

H4324 · 18×

מִיכָל

Mikal

“Mikal, Saul's daughter”

Read 2 Samuel 17:20 in context →