# מַכָּה (makah)

Israeli respelling: ma-kah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4347. 46 Old Testament occurrences.

a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence

King James renderings: beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, [idiom] sore, stripe, stroke, wound(-ed).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/makah-h4347

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 26:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/21) — And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
- [Numbers 11:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/33) — And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smot…
- [Deuteronomy 25:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/3) — Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother shou…
- [Deuteronomy 28:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/59) — Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesse…
- [Deuteronomy 28:61](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/61) — Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be dest…
- [Deuteronomy 29:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/22) — So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say,…
- [Joshua 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/10) — And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to…
- [Joshua 10:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/20) — And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were con…
- [Judges 11:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/33) — And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great sl…
- [Judges 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/8) — And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
- [1 Samuel 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/4/8) — Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in…
- [1 Samuel 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/4/10) — And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there…
- [1 Samuel 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/19) — And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and three…
- [1 Samuel 14:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/14) — And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a y…
- [1 Samuel 14:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/30) — How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a muc…
- [1 Samuel 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/8) — And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
- [1 Samuel 23:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/5) — So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter.…
- [1 Kings 20:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/20/21) — And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
- [1 Kings 22:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/35) — And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out o…
- [2 Kings 8:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/8/29) — And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king…
- [2 Kings 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/15) — But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria…
- [2 Chronicles 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/10) — And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measure…
- [2 Chronicles 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/17) — And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
- [2 Chronicles 22:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/6) — And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And…
- [2 Chronicles 28:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/28/5) — Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them…
- [Esther 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/5) — Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that…
- [Psalms 64:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/7) — But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
- [Proverbs 20:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/30) — The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
- [Isaiah 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/6) — From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been…
- [Isaiah 10:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/26) — And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the…
- [Isaiah 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/6) — He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
- [Isaiah 27:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/7) — Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
- [Isaiah 30:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/26) — Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, i…
- [Jeremiah 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/7) — As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief…
- [Jeremiah 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/19) — Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
- [Jeremiah 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/17) — Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daugh…
- [Jeremiah 15:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/18) — Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters tha…
- [Jeremiah 19:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/19/8) — And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues…
- [Jeremiah 30:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/30/12) — For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
- [Jeremiah 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/30/14) — All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a crue…
- [Jeremiah 30:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/30/17) — For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This…
- [Jeremiah 49:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/17) — Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- [Jeremiah 50:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/13) — Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be aston…
- [Micah 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/9) — For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- [Nahum 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/19) — There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hat…
- [Zechariah 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/13/6) — And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my f…