Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H62
אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה
Abel Beth-Maakahaw-bale' bayth ma-akaw'
Abel-beth-maachah
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼÂbêl Bêyth-Măʻakâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H62is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H62
Abel of Beth-maakah, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Abel-beth-maachah, Abel of Beth-maachah,
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
Abel Beth-Maakah is rendered "Abel-beth-maachah". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 20:14Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel-beth-maacah and through the entire region of the Berites, who gathered together and followed him.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel-beth-maacah and through the entire region of the Berites, who gathered together and followed him.
2 Samuel 20:14אָבֵ֛לָה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Beth3
- Maacah3
- Abel2
- Abel towards1
- and Beth1
- in Abel towards1
- the Maacah1
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 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 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
- אָבֵ֣ל2
- בֵּֽית־2
- אָבֵ֛לָה1
- בְּאָבֵ֙לָה֙1
- בֵּ֣ית1
- הַֽמַּעֲכָ֔ה1
- וּבֵ֥ית1
- מַעֲכָ֖ה1
- מַעֲכָ֑ה1
- מַעֲכָ֡ה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)7HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNpl/Sd
- preposition + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HR/Npl/Sd
- the definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)1HTd/Npl
2 Samuel
six uses
Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel-beth-maacah and through the entire region of the Berites, who gathered together and followed him.
- אָבֵ֛לָהʾavelahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Abel towards
- וּבֵ֥יתuveitconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and Beth
- מַעֲכָ֖הmaakhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Maacah
And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
- בְּאָבֵ֙לָה֙beavelahpreposition + proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: in Abel towards
- בֵּ֣יתbeitnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: Beth
- הַֽמַּעֲכָ֔הhamaakhahthe definite article (“the”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: the Maacah
1 Kings
three uses
And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.
- אָבֵ֣לʾavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
- בֵּֽית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- מַעֲכָ֑הmaakhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Maacah
2 Kings
three uses
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
- אָבֵ֣לʾavelproper noun (a name)tagged: Abel
- בֵּֽית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- מַעֲכָ֡הmaakhahproper noun (a name)tagged: Maacah
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.