מִכְמָס
Michmas
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Michmas’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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 H4363 appears in the Book of 1 Samuel — 7 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 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 13:2 בְּ/מִכְמָשׂ֙ prep + n Proper Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
- 1 Samuel 13:5 בְ/מִכְמָ֔שׂ prep + n Proper The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
- 1 Samuel 13:11 מִכְמָֽשׂ n Proper Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
- 1 Samuel 13:16 בְ/מִכְמָֽשׂ prep + n Proper Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 13:23 מִכְמָֽשׂ n Proper The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 14:5 מִכְמָ֑שׂ n Proper The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
- 1 Samuel 14:31 מִ/מִּכְמָ֖שׂ prep + n Proper They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
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.
The Hebrew name מכמס centers on the idea of “Michmas.” The word gravitates to 1 Samuel (64%), then Nehemiah and Ezra. It turns up in 11 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Samuel 13:2. For the data behind this summary, explore 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4363 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
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 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 73%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 27%
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: Michmash 8×, Michmas 2×
- American Standard Version: Michmash 8×, Michmas 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Michmash 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Michmash 8×, Michmas 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4363 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4363 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4363 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4363 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- Michmas or Michmash = "hidden"
- a city in Benjamin lying near Ramah and approximately 10 miles
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Ezr 2:27 = Ne 7:31; = מִכְמָשׂ (v. Baer’s notes) 1 S 13:2 + 6 times 1 S, + 2 times;—city in Benjamin, N. from Geba and Jerusalem 1 S 13:2, 5 (E. from Bethaven), v 11, 16, 23; 14:5, 31 Is 10:28 Ne 11:31; אַנְשֵׁי מ׳ Ezr 2:27 = Ne 7:31. 𝔊 Μαχ(ε)μας, etc. (On Mikmās v. RobBR i, 440 ff. BuhlGeogr. § 96).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כמס (kâmaç) (H3647) — to store up.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מִכְמָס
- Mikhmas in Benjamin. Men. VIII, 1 (Bab. ed. 83ᵇ מכניס, corr. acc.; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.); Tosef. ib. IX, 2 מכמם ed. Zuck. (Var. … מס).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H4363 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִכְמָ֔ס | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:27 | 2 |
| מִכְמָֽשׂ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 13:11 | 2 |
| בְ/מִכְמָ֔שׂ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 13:5 | 1 |
| בְ/מִכְמָֽשׂ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 13:16 | 1 |
| בְּ/מִכְמָשׂ֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 13:2 | 1 |
| לְ/מִכְמָ֖שׂ | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 10:28 | 1 |
| מִ/מִּכְמָ֖שׂ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 14:31 | 1 |
| מִכְמָ֑שׂ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 14:5 | 1 |
| מִכְמָ֣שׂ | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 11:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4363, 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.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 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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