מִיכָהוּ
Michaiah
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4319 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 17:1 מִיכָֽיְהוּ n Proper There was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
- Judges 17:4 מִיכָֽיְהוּ n Proper When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.
About this entry
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מיכהו — transliterated Mîykâhûw — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Michaiah.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Judges (100% of all occurrences). It first appears in Judges 17:1. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4319 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Micaiah 1×
- American Standard Version: Micaiah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Micaiah 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Micah 1×, Was micah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4319 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4319 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4319 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4319 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Michaiah = "who is like God"
- son of Imlah and a prophet of Samaria who predicted the defeat and death of king Ahab of Israel
Word origin
Derived from מיכיהו (Mîykâyᵉhûw) (H4321) — Micaiah.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Michaiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
(1.) The queen-mother of King Abijah (2 Chr. 13:2). (See MAACAH ).
(2.) One of those sent out by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people in the law (2 Chr. 17:7).
(3.) 2 Kings 22:12.
(4.) The son of Gemariah. He reported to the king's officers Jeremiah's prediction, which he had heard Baruch read (Jer. 36:11, 13) from his father Gemariah's chamber in the temple.
(5.) A Levite (Neh. 12:35).
(6.) A priest (Neh. 12:41).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(who is like God?).
+ Same as Micah 6. (2 Chronicles 34:25) + Same as Micha 3. (1 Chronicles 9:15; Nehemiah 12:35) + One of the priests at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 12:41) + The daughter of Uriel of Gibeah, wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah king of Judah. (2 Chronicles 13:2) [Maachah,3] + One of the princes of Jehoshaphat whom he sent to teach the law of Jehovah in the cities of Judah. (2 Chronicles 17:7) + The son of Gemariah. He is only mentioned on one occasion. (Jeremiah 36:11,13,14)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
Michael, same as Micah
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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