מִיכָֽיְהוּ
Micaiah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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 H4321 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 9 distinct verses. 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.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 22:8 מִיכָ֖יְהוּ n Proper The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
- 1 Kings 22:9 מִיכָ֥יְהוּ n Proper Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.
- 1 Kings 22:13 מִיכָ֗יְהוּ n Proper The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one mouth: please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak you good.
- 1 Kings 22:14 מִיכָ֑יְהוּ n Proper Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.
- 1 Kings 22:15 מִיכָ֨יְהוּ֙ n Proper When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
- 1 Kings 22:24 מִיכָ֖יְהוּ n Proper Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?
- 1 Kings 22:25 מִיכָ֔יְהוּ n Proper Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
- 1 Kings 22:26 מִיכָ֔יְהוּ n Proper The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
- 1 Kings 22:28 מִיכָ֔יְהוּ n Proper Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Micaiah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name מיכיהו (Mîykâyᵉhûw). Scripture first uses it in 1 Kings 22:8. It appears 19 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in 1 Kings. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4321 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 →
- 19
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 19 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,563
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,563 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 19 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 9 verses 47%
- 2 Chronicles 8 verses 42%
- Jeremiah 2 verses 11%
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 19 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 11 verses · 58%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 42%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Micaiah 13×, Michaiah 2×
- American Standard Version: Micaiah 15×
- Berean Standard Bible: Micaiah 16×, Micah 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Micaiah 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4321 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4321 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4321 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4321 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. an Ephraimite, Ju 17:1, 4 (in 17:5 ff.; 18:2 ff. called מִיכָה). e.g. Judges 17:1
- 2. a prophet, the son of Imlah (𝔊 Μειχαίας), 1 K 22:8–26 (9 times), ‖ 2 Ch 18:7–25 (7 times) + v 8 Qr (Kt מיכהו). e.g. 1 Kings 22:8
- 3. a contemp. of Jer., Je 36:11 (מִכָֽיְהוּ), v 13. e.g. Jeremiah 36:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (so on an Isr. scarab, GanneauJAS 1883, 156, No. 42)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מיכיהו (Mîykâyâhûw) (H4322) — Michaiah.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H4321 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִיכָ֔יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 22:25 | 6 |
| מִיכָ֖יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 22:8 | 3 |
| מִיכָ֑יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 22:14 | 2 |
| מִיכָ֥יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 22:9 | 2 |
| לְ/מִיכָ֗יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 18:12 | 1 |
| מִיכָ֗יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 22:13 | 1 |
| מִיכָ֣יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 18:7 | 1 |
| מִיכָ֨יְהוּ֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 22:15 | 1 |
| מִכָ֔יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 36:13 | 1 |
| מִכָ֨יְהוּ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 36:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4321, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Micaiah). 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
Who is like Jehovah?, the son of Imlah, a faithful prophet of Samaria (1 Kings 22:8-28). Three years after the great battle with Ben-hadad (20:29-34), Ahab proposed to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, that they should go up against Ramoth-Gilead to do battle again with Ben-hadad. Jehoshaphat agreed, but suggested that inquiry should be first made "at the word of Jehovah." Ahab's prophets approved of the expedition; but Jehoshaphat, still dissatisfied, asked if there was no other prophet besides the four hundred that had appeared, and was informed of this Micaiah. He was sent for from prison, where he had been confined, probably on account of some prediction disagreeable to Ahab; and he condemned the expedition, and prophesied that it would end, as it did, in disaster. We hear nothing further of this prophet. Some have supposed that he was the unnamed prophet referred to in 1 Kings 20:35-42.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(who is like God?). Micahiah, the son of Imlah, was a prophet of Samaria, who in the last year of the reign of Ahab king of Israel predicted his defeat and death, B.C. 897. (1 Kings 22:1-35; 2 Chronicles 18:1) ...
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
who is like to God?
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 19 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 19 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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