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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4731

מַקֵּל

maqqelmak-kale

rod

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

Concordance spelling: maqqêl

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4731is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4731

a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)

The King James renders it: rod, (hand-)staff.

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

maqqel is rendered "rod". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:37Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

Genesis 30:37מַקַּ֥ל

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

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's eighteen uses are in Genesis.

The other 31 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

  • the branches4
  • staff my2
  • a branch of1
  • a staff of1
  • and staff your1
  • and stick his1
  • and with staff of1
  • at the branches1
  • branch of1
  • staffs1
  • stick his1
  • with staff my1

and 2 more, 18 uses in all

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.

All 18, 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

  • בַּמַּקֵּֽל׃1
  • בַּמַּקְל֑וֹת1
  • בַּמַּקְלֽוֹת׃1
  • בְמַקְלִ֗י1
  • הַמַּקְלוֹת֙1
  • הַמַּקְל֑וֹת1
  • הַמַּקְל֛וֹת1
  • הַמַּקְלֽוֹת׃1
  • וּבְמַקֵּ֥ל1
  • וּמַקְל֖וֹ1
  • וּמַקֶּלְכֶ֖ם1
  • מַקֵּ֥ל1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural4HTd/Ncfpa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp1bs
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural2HRd/Ncfpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmsc
  • noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa

Genesis

seven uses
  • Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

    Genesis 30:37

    • מַקַּ֥לmakalnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: branch of
    • הַמַּקְלֽוֹת׃hamaklotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the branches
  • Then he set the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

    Genesis 30:38

    • הַמַּקְלוֹת֙hamaklotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the branches
  • they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

    Genesis 30:39

    • הַמַּקְל֑וֹתhamaklotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the branches
  • Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.

    Genesis 30:41

    • הַמַּקְל֛וֹתhamaklotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the branches
    • בַּמַּקְלֽוֹת׃bamaklotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: at the branches
  • I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

    Genesis 32:10

    • בְמַקְלִ֗יvemaklipreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: with staff my

Exodus

one use
  • This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

    Exodus 12:11

    • וּמַקֶּלְכֶ֖םumakelkhemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and staff your

Numbers

one use
  • When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.

    Numbers 22:27

    • בַּמַּקֵּֽל׃bamakelpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the stick

1 Samuel

two uses
  • And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.

    1 Samuel 17:40

    • מַקְל֜וֹmaklonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: stick his
  • “Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

    1 Samuel 17:43

    • בַּמַּקְל֑וֹתbamaklotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: with the sticks

Jeremiah

two uses
  • And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

    Jeremiah 1:11

    • מַקֵּ֥לmakelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a branch of
  • Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!

    Jeremiah 48:17

    • מַקֵּ֖לmakelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a staff of

Ezekiel

one use
  • Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.

    Ezekiel 39:9

    • וּבְמַקֵּ֥לuvemakelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and with staff of

Hosea

one use
  • My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

    Hosea 4:12

    • וּמַקְל֖וֹumakloconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and stick his

Zechariah

three uses
  • So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.

    Zechariah 11:7

    • מַקְל֗וֹתmaklotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: staffs
  • Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

    Zechariah 11:10

    • מַקְלִי֙maklinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: staff my
  • Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

    Zechariah 11:14

    • מַקְלִ֣יmaklinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: staff my

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

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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