Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4324
מִיכָל
Mikalme-kawl'
Michal
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Mîykâl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4324is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4324
Mikal, Saul's daughter
The King James renders it: Michal.
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
Mikal is rendered "Michal". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Ten of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 14:49Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
1 Samuel 14:49מִיכַֽל׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's eighteen uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Michal14
- and Michal3
- and to Michal1
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 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- מִיכַ֥ל3
- וּמִיכַ֨ל2
- מִיכַ֤ל2
- מִיכַ֣ל2
- וּלְמִיכַל֙1
- וּמִיכַ֥ל1
- מִיכַ֛ל1
- מִיכַ֜ל1
- מִיכַ֗ל1
- מִיכַל֙1
- מִיכַ֔ל1
- מִיכַל֒1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)14HNpf
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npf
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npf
1 Samuel
ten uses
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
- מִיכַֽל׃mikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
- מִיכַ֥לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
- מִיכַ֥לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
- וּמִיכַ֥לumikhalconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Michal
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!”
- מִיכַ֤לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
- מִיכַ֛לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
- מִיכַ֜לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
- מִיכַ֗לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
- מִיכַל֙mikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
- מִיכַ֥לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
2 Samuel
seven uses
“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
- מִיכַ֣לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
- מִיכַ֔לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
- וּמִיכַ֨לumikhalconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Michal
As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”
- מִיכַ֤לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,
- מִיכַל֒mikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
- וּלְמִיכַל֙ulemikhalconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Michal
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
- מִיכַ֣לmikhalproper noun (a name)tagged: Michal
1 Chronicles
one use
As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
- וּמִיכַ֨לumikhalconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Michal
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.