מָקוֹם
place
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
7 verses where H4725 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Isaiah. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 5:8 מָק֔וֹם n c ms Woe to those who join house to house, Who lay field to field, until there is no room, And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
- Isaiah 7:23 מָק֗וֹם n c ms It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 22:23 בְּ/מָק֣וֹם prep + n c ms I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
- Isaiah 22:25 בְּ/מָק֣וֹם prep + n c ms In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Isaiah 28:8 מָקֽוֹם n c ms For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
- Isaiah 49:20 הַ/מָּק֖וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too small for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
- Isaiah 66:1 מָק֖וֹם n c ms Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?
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.
מקום — transliterated mâqôwm — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “place.” The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. Spanning 379 verses in 33 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 1:9. Sharing its root, it stands alongside קום, יקום and קום. 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 H4725 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 →
- 379
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 379 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #126
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 126 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 379 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 44 verses 12%
- Jeremiah 43 verses 11%
- Deuteronomy 33 verses 9%
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 379 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 171 verses · 45%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 127 verses · 34%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 81 verses · 21%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Place 286×, Every place 8×, All places 7×
- American Standard Version†: Place 254×, Every place 8×, All places 6×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Place 268×, Home 16×, Places 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Place 313×, Place of 33×, In 18×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4725 across 402† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 50 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 H4725 across 402† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 82 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 H4725 across 381† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 34 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 19 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4725 across 435† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
17 senses and sub-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 17 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.
- a. standing-place Ex 3:5 (E), Jos 5:15; Ex 33:21; Nu 23:13, 27; (all JE), Gn 19:27 (J), Jos 3:3 (D), of מַצֵּבוֹת, etc., 2 K 23:14, of ark (place where it is set, stands) 1 K 8:7 = 2 Ch 5:8, earth Is 13:13 Jb 9:6, rock Jb 14:18; 18:4; cf. 38:12, 19. e.g. Exodus 3:5
- b. station, where soldiers are placed Jos 8:19 (JE), Ju 20:33(×2); post in battle 2 S 11:16. e.g. Joshua 8:19
- c. post, office Gn 40:13; 41:13; 1 K 20:24; Ec 10:4. e.g. Genesis 40:13
- 2.
- a. place of anything Gn 29:3 (J), Jos 4:18 (JE), 1 S 5:3 Is 46:7 Jb 6:17; 37:1 (of the heart), Ec 1:5; especially of ark 1 S 5:11 + 9 times; of pers. = destination Ju 11:19. e.g. Genesis 29:3
- b. especially (1) place of human abode Gn 13:14; 20:13 Ju 7:7 1 S 2:20 + 42 times, + מְקוֹם אָהֳלֵךְ Is 54:2. (2) of י׳’s abode Ho 5:15, in heaven Mi 1:3 Is 26:21 1 K 8:30 = 2 Ch 6:21. (3) lair of lion (fig.) Je 4:7. e.g. Genesis 13:14
- 3. place =
- a. city Gn 18:24, 26; 20:11; Dt 21:19 (‖ עִיר) 2 K 18:25 + 39 times (1 S 7:16 הַמִּקְדָּשִׁים 𝔊, cf. We HPS). e.g. Genesis 18:24
- b. of land: Canaan Ex 23:20 1 S 12:8 Je 16:2, 3 (‖ אֶרֶץ) + 17 times (12 times Je); Philistia 1 S 14:46; Egypt Je 44:29; appos. מְדִינָה Est 4:3, = מְדִינָה + עִיר 8:17. e.g. Exodus 23:20
- c. plot, parcel, of ground Is 7:23; מְקוֹם הַגֹּרֶן 1 Ch 21:22, cf. v 25; 2 Ch 3:1. e.g. Isaiah 7:23
- d. land, region Nu 20:5; 32:1; Che (privately) proposes בִּמְקֹם בְּקָעוֹת ψ 84:7 (for בְּעֵמֶק הַבָּכָא; cf. Is 41:18). e.g. Numbers 20:5
- 4. in gen., place locality, spot Gn 28:16, 17 Ju 2:5 Am 4:6 Ne 4:6, 7, 14 + (221 times in all); מְקוֹם פְּלֹנִי אַלְמֹנִי place of such a one †1 S 21:3 2 K 6:8; בְּכָל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר Ex 20:24 (E; Gi v 21) in all places that; בְּכָל־מ׳ Nu 18:31 = anywhere, cf. Dt 12:13; = everywhere Pr 15:3 Mal 1:11, cf. Am 8:3; מ׳ צָר Nu 22:26 narrow place; מ׳ Ne 2:14 (passable) place; in partic.: place at banquet †1 S 9:22; 20:25, 27; sleeping-place, couch, †1 S 3:2, 9; Ru 4:10; מְקוֹם הַחֵ֑צִי 1 S 20:37 i.e. where arrow fell; = haunt, lurking-place 1 S 23:22 2 S 17:9, 12; מְקוֹם תַּנִּים ψ 44:20 place of jackals, i.e. desert; מְ׳ הַמֻּנָּח Ez 41:11b place of the uncovered space, portion (cf. הַמֻּנָּח alone v 11a); מְ׳ הַשֶּׁבֶת of seat of Sol.’s throne 1 K 10:19 = 2 Ch 9:18; מ׳ אֶחָד where waters were collected Gn 1:9 (𝔊 Ball מִקְוֶה), ψ 104:8; destination of dead Ec 3:30; 6:6; מ׳ = resting-place Jb 16:18; מ׳ נֶאֱמָן sure place, for a peg (securely fastened) Is 22:23, 25 (fig., cf. Ezr 9:8); of places, spots, on the body: leprous spot †2 K 5:11; מְ׳ הַשְּׁחִין †Lv 13:19 place of the boil; especially of shrine, sanctuary (cf. We 1 S 7:16), מְקוֹם שְׁכֶם Gn 12:6 (J; v. Di Holz), so of Bethel Gn 13:3 (J), v 4 (J; מְקוֹם הַמִּזְבֵּחַ), 28:19 (J), v 11(×3) (E), 22:3, 4, 9, 14 (E), +; of idolatrous shrines Dt 12:2, 3; Ez 6:13; 2 Ch 33:19; especially of temple: י׳) הַמּ׳ אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר (אֱלֹהֵיכֶם בּוֹ Dt 12:5, 14; 14:23, 25; 15:20; 16:2, 6; 17:8; 18:6 + 13 times Dt + Jos 9:27 (D), Ne 1:9; מ׳ 1 K 8:29(×2), 30, 35 = 2 Ch 6:20(×2), 21, 26 Je 27:22 +; מְ׳ שֵׁם־י׳ צְבָאוֹת הַר־צִיּוֹן Is 18:7; מְ׳ כִּסְאִי Ez 43:7; מְ׳ מִקְדָּשֵׁנוּ Je 17:12; מְ׳ מִקְדָּשִׁי Is 60:13; מְ׳ קָדְשׁוֹ † Ezr 9:8 ψ 24:3, etc.; of tabern. מְ׳ הַקֹּדֶשׁ Lv 10:17; 14:30; מ׳ קָדוֹשׁ in or about tabern., Ex 29:31 Lv 6:9, 19, 20 + (all P), מְ׳ קָדוֹשׁ Ec 8:10. Note especially †מְקוֹם before rel.cl., c. אֲשֶׁר Gn 39:20; 40:3 Ez 6:13 Est 4:3; 8:17, c. שֶׁ Ec 1:7; 3:16, rel. om. Jb 18:21; also בִּמְ׳ אֲשֶׁר Ho 2:1; 2 S 15:21; 1 K 21:19; Je 22:12; Ez 21:35; Ne 4:14; Lv 4:24, 33; 6:18; 7:2; 14:13; Nu 9:17 (Ges§ 130 c). e.g. Genesis 28:16
- 5.
- a. space, room, Gn 24:23, 25, 31 (J), Is 5:8 cf. 28:8; Je 7:32; 19:11. e.g. Genesis 24:23
- b. space, distance, between (בֵּין) 1 S 26:13. e.g. 1 Samuel 26:13
- 6. region, quarter, direction Ez 10:11; מִמּ׳ אַחֵר Est 4:14 from another quarter, source. e.g. Ezekiel 10:11
- 7. peculiar uses are:
- a. נָתַן מ׳ לְ Ju 20:36 give place (yield ground) to. Perhaps e.g. Judges 20:36
- b. בִּמְ׳ אֲשֶׁר יֵאָמֵר Ho 2:1 instead of its being said (cf. תַּחַת); מְקוֹם נְהָרִים Is 33:21 instead of rivers (i.e. a substitute for them).—מְקוֹמָהּ Na 1:8 (‖ אֹיְבָיו) read מִקָּמָיו or בְּק׳ BuhlZAW v (1885), 181, מִתְקוֹמְמָו We, בְּקָמָיו Now (all = his adversaries, cf. GASm). e.g. Hosea 2:1
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
(Ex 29:31, etc.)399 n.m. Gn 19:13 (but v. infr.), standing-place, place;—abs. מ׳ Ex 21:13 +; cstr. מְקוֹם Gn 12:6 + (often before אֲשֶׁר 39:20 +); sf. מְקוֹמוֹ 1 S 3:2 +, מְקֹמוֹ Gn 18:33 +, etc.; pl. usually מְקֹמוֹת Ju 19:13 +, מְקוֹמוֹת 1 S 7:16; Je 29:14; -מֹת 2 S 17:9 + 2 times; sf. מְקוֹמֹתֵיכֶם Am 4:6, etc. [appar. f. (not Gn 18:24, where עִיר is in mind, not) Jb 20:9 (מְקוֹמוֹ = ‘in his place’), but Codd. (either Kt or Qr) Ju 19:13 2 S 17:9, 12; mostly expl. away by AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 53];—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קום (qûwm) (H6965) — to rise.
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.
מָקוֹם
- 1. place. Ab. Zar. 8ᵇ; Snh. 14ᵇ המ׳ גורם, v. גָּרַם. Yoma 38ᵃ bot. בשמך יקראוך ובמְקוֹמְךָ וכ׳ thou shalt be called by what name thou deservest, and given the place due to thee &c., i.e. be not afraid of human envy. Shebu. VII, 4 חזרה השבועה למְקוֹמָהּ the oath goes back to its home, expl. ib. 47ᵃ חזרה שבועה לסיני the oath goes back to Sinai, i.e. no oath is demanded and no decision rendered, the case being surrendered to him who proclaimed on Sinai, ‘thou shalt not rob’; oth. opin. חזרה שבועה למחוייב לה the oath goes back to him who by right should have been asked to make oath but could not be permitted to swear on account of disqualification, i.e. he must pay; a. v. fr.—כל מ׳, בכל מ׳ (abbr. כ"מ, בכ"מ) everywhere. Sabb. 40ᵇ; a. fr.—כל מ׳ ש־, בכ"מ wherever. Erub. 81ᵇ. Meg. 29ᵃ; a. fr.—אותו מ׳, v. אוֹת III.
- 2. existence, substance; הַמָּ׳ the Existence, the Lord (cmp. מָעוֹן). Gen. R. s. 68 מפני מה מכנין שמו של הקב"ה וקוראין אותו מ׳ in circumscribing the name of the Lord, why do we call him Maḳom? שהוא מְקוֹמוֹ של עולם ואין עולמו מקומו because He is the existence (the preserver) of the world, but His world is not His existence; Pesik. R. s. 21; a. e.—Ab. Zar. 40ᵇ ברוך המ׳ שמסר עולמו לשומרים blessed be the Lord who has given his world over to preservers (who has created remedies). Nidd. 49ᵇ המ׳ יהיה בעזרו the Lord be with him. Ber. 16ᵇ; Lev. R. s. 5, v. חֶסְרוֹן; a. v. fr.
מקום
- , Treat. Sof’rim XXI, 7 ברבי מ׳, v. מֵרוֹם
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 152 distinct written forms H4725 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.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 92 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4725, 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
Shares the same root
- יקום yᵉqûwm H3351 substance
- קום qûwm H6966 to arise
- קומה qôwmâh H6967 height
- קוממיות qôwmᵉmîyûwth H6968 uprightness
- קים qîym H7009 adversary
- קימה qîymâh H7012 rising up
- קמה qâmâh H7054 standing grain
- תקומה tᵉqûwmâh H8617 standing
- תקומם tᵉqôwmêm H8618 rising against
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יקים Yâqîym H3356 Jakim
- יקמיה Yᵉqamyâh H3359 Jecamiah
- יקמעם Yᵉqamʻâm H3360 Jekameam
- יקמעם Yoqmᵉʻâm H3361 Jokmeam
- קמואל Qᵉmûwʼêl H7055 Kemuel
- קמון Qâmôwn H7056 Camon
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 17 — not the complete family. 6 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 358 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 379 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
- Genesis 1:9
- Exodus 3:5
- Leviticus 1:16
- Numbers 9:17
- Deuteronomy 1:31
- Joshua 1:3
- Judges 2:5
- Ruth 1:7
- 1 Samuel 2:20
- 2 Samuel 2:16
- 1 Kings 5:9
- 2 Kings 5:11
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.
