מָקוֹם
place
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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).
Every verse where H4725 appears in the Book of Jeremiah — 43 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.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 4:7 מִ/מְּקֹמ֑/וֹ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 7:3 בַּ/מָּק֥וֹם prep det + n c ms Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
- Jeremiah 7:6 בַּ/מָּק֣וֹם prep det + n c ms if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
- Jeremiah 7:7 בַּ/מָּק֣וֹם prep det + n c ms then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
- Jeremiah 7:12 מְקוֹמִ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs But go you now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
- Jeremiah 7:14 וְ/לַ֨/מָּק֔וֹם conj + prep det + n c ms therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
- Jeremiah 7:20 הַ/מָּק֣וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
- Jeremiah 7:32 מָקֽוֹם n c ms Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place [to bury].
- Jeremiah 8:3 הַ/מְּקֹמ֤וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 13:7 הַ/מָּק֖וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
- Jeremiah 14:13 בַּ/מָּק֖וֹם prep det + n c ms Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
- Jeremiah 16:2 בַּ/מָּק֖וֹם prep det + n c ms You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.
- Jeremiah 16:3 בַּ/מָּק֣וֹם prep det + n c ms For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became the father of them in this land:
- Jeremiah 16:9 הַ/מָּק֥וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
- Jeremiah 17:12 מְק֖וֹם n c ms cs A glorious throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
- Jeremiah 19:3 הַ/מָּק֣וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms and say, Hear you the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
- Jeremiah 19:4 הַ/מָּק֤וֹם הַ/מָּק֥וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
- Jeremiah 19:6 לַ/מָּק֨וֹם prep det + n c ms therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
- Jeremiah 19:7 בַּ/מָּק֣וֹם prep det + n c ms I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
- Jeremiah 19:11 מָק֖וֹם n c ms and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.
- Jeremiah 19:12 לַ/מָּק֥וֹם prep det + n c ms Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth:
- Jeremiah 19:13 כִּ/מְק֥וֹם prep + n c ms cs and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.
- Jeremiah 22:3 בַּ/מָּק֥וֹם prep det + n c ms Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
- Jeremiah 22:11 הַ/מָּק֣וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return there any more.
- Jeremiah 22:12 בִּ/מְק֛וֹם prep + n c ms cs But in the place where they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
- Jeremiah 24:5 הַ/מָּק֥וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
- Jeremiah 24:9 הַ/מְּקֹמ֖וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
- Jeremiah 27:22 הַ/מָּק֖וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
- Jeremiah 28:3 הַ/מָּק֣וֹם הַ/מָּק֣וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:
- Jeremiah 28:4 הַ/מָּק֥וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 28:6 הַ/מָּק֥וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
- Jeremiah 29:10 הַ/מָּק֖וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
- Jeremiah 29:14 הַ/מְּקוֹמ֗וֹת הַ֨/מָּק֔וֹם ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c ms I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.
- Jeremiah 32:37 הַ/מָּק֣וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
- Jeremiah 33:10 בַּ/מָּקוֹם prep det + n c ms Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,
- Jeremiah 33:12 בַּ/מָּק֣וֹם prep det + n c ms Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
- Jeremiah 40:2 הַ/מָּק֖וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God pronounced this evil on this place;
- Jeremiah 40:12 הַ/מְּקֹמוֹת֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
- Jeremiah 42:18 הַ/מָּק֖וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.
- Jeremiah 42:22 בַּ/מָּקוֹם֙ prep det + n c ms Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn there.
- Jeremiah 44:29 בַּ/מָּק֣וֹם prep det + n c ms This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
- Jeremiah 45:5 הַ/מְּקֹמ֖וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.
- Jeremiah 51:62 הַ/מָּק֤וֹם ptcl def.art + n c ms and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.
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
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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.
