מַכָּה
makkâ
blow
Strong's H4347NounHebrewTWOT 1364d

מַכָּה (makkâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning blow. It appears 48 times in 17 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4347).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1364d)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1364d)blow, wound, slaughter; carnage, pestilence; beaten, plague, smote, stripe, stroke, wounded
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מַכָּה noun, feminine: blow, wound, slaughter

Strong's H4347 מַכָּה: a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
KJV:beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, × sore, stripe, stroke, wound(-ed).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1364: נָכָה nākâ — smite; be smitten down; strike, beat, give a thrust, attack, attack and destroy, chastise, send judgment upon, destroying; be smitten; cast forth, clap, give, kill, make, murderer, punish, slaughter, slay, slayer, slaying, smiter…

See it in Scripture

Leviticus 26:21Numbers 11:33Deuteronomy 25:3

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