מַכָּה

Strong’s Definition

a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence

Etymology & Derivation

or (masculine) מַכֶּה; (plural only) from H5221 (נָכָה); a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication,

KJV Usage

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

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.blow, wound, slaughter
• 2.blow, stripe
• 3.beating, scourging
• 4.wound
• 5.slaughter
• 6.defeat, conquest
• 7.plague

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: makkâh; Pronunciation: mak-kaw'