מָקַץ
Makaz
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Makaz’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4739 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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 verse
About this entry
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מקץ (Mâqats) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Makaz.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. 1 Kings dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is 1 Kings 4:9. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4739 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Makaz 1×
- American Standard Version: Makaz 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Makaz 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Makaz 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4739 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4739 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4739 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4739 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- Makaz = "end"
- a place in Israel; site unknown
Word origin
מָקַץ n.pr.loc. in Israel, site unknown, 1 K 4:9
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קצץ (qâtsats) (H7112) — to cut off.
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.
קָץ
- (קצץ) Decreer of Falsehood, legendary name of one of the Sodomitic judges. Gen. R. s. 50; Yalk. ib. 84, v. קַוְשֶׁקֶר.
קַץ
- , v. קְצַץ
קֵץ
- end, term, designated time, esp. the time of redemption. Gen. R. s. 44 (ref. to Is. XLI, 5) זה שרוי בקִיצּוֹ של עולם וכ׳ this one (Abraham) dwelt in one extreme part of the world, and that one (Shem) in the other &c. Ned. 41ᵃ כיון שהגיע קיצו וכ׳ when a man’s time (to die) has come. Meg. 3ᵃ משום דאית ביה קץ משיח because therein (in the Hagiographa) are contained intimations about the Messianic term (the Book of Daniel). Snh. 92ᵇ שמנו לקץ וטעו who ventured calculations as to the time of the redemption from Egypt, and made a mistake; Ex. R. s. 20 יצאו … שלם הקץ they left Egypt before the predestined term had expired; a. fr.—Pl. קִצִּים, קִצִּין, קִי׳. Ab. Zar. 61ᵇ ממונה הבא לק׳ a superintendent that comes at regular times. Snh. 97ᵇ מחשבי ק׳, v. חָשַׁב. Ib. כלו כל הק׳ ואין וכ׳ all the dates of redemption (calculated from the Scriptures) have passed, and the thing depends only on repentance. Cant. R. to II, 8; Lev. R. s. 19, v. עִיבּוּר. Pesik. R. s. 15, v. קִפַץ; a. fr.—[קיצין, Cant. R. to V, 11, v. קִיץ.] e.g. Isaiah 41:5
קֵץ ²
- Targ. O. Gen. VI, 13. Targ. Ez. VII, 6. Targ. Jer. VIII, 20 ed. Lag. (ed. קִבָּא); a. fr.—Lam. R. to II, 2; to IV, 18 קרב קצנו ק׳ דההיא ביתא ‘our end has come near’, the end of that house (the Temple); Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵃ קִיצֵּיה דההוא וכ׳; a. e.—Pl. קִצַּיָּא, קִי׳. Targ. Y. I Gen. XLIX, 1. Targ. Job VII, 12, v. גְּרַף.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4739, 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
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 → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Makaz). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(end), a place, apparently a town, named once only-- (1 Kings 4:9)--in the: specification of the jurisdiction of Solomon a commissariat officer, Ben-Dekar. Makaz has not been discovered.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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