מַעֲכָתִי
Maachathite
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4602 appears — 8 distinct verses across 6 books. 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.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 12:5 וְ/הַ/מַּעֲכָתִ֑י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
- Joshua 13:11 וְ/הַ/מַּעֲכָתִ֗י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
- Joshua 13:13 הַ/מַּעֲכָתִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
2 Samuel 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
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.
מעכתי (Maʻăkâthîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Maachathite.” Debuting at Deuteronomy 3:14, it then recurs through the corpus. With 8 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Joshua, which alone accounts for 38% of its uses. For the data behind this summary, explore 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4602 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 3 verses 38%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 13%
- 2 Samuel 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 75%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 13%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 13%
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: Maachathite 4×, Maachathites 3×
- American Standard Version: Maacathite 4×, Maacathites 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Maacathite 4×, Maacathites 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Maacathite 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4602 across 8 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 H4602 across 9 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 H4602 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4602 across 7 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.
Senses in BDB
The 4 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.
- Maachathite = "pressure (literally she has pressed)"
- used of one of David's mighty warriors
- used of an associate of Ishmael
- a people dwelling in Transjordan, probably descendants of Maachah
Word origin
מַעֲכָתִי adj.gent. of one of David’s heroes; of associate of Ishmael the Judean; coll. = the Maachathites
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מעכה (Maʻăkâh) (H4601) — Maachathites.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H4602 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/מַּ֣עֲכָתִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 25:23 | 2 |
| הַ/מַּֽעֲכָתִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:34 | 1 |
| הַ/מַּעֲכָתִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 13:13 | 1 |
| הַ/מַּעֲכָתִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 4:19 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/מַּֽעֲכָתִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 3:14 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/מַּעֲכָתִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 12:5 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/מַּעֲכָתִ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 13:11 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
