mecha · strike; fasten

What it means

mecha (מְחָא) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “strike; fasten”.

To strike; to fasten (Aramaic).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To deal a blow that wounds or knocks down, in Aramaic.
2. Hold back someone's hand.
3. Fix with nails.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• struck ×2
• can stay ×1
• he shall be nailed ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra×1
• Daniel×3

• Ezra 6:11

  And by me an order is given that for any man who changes this decree, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and, lifted up, he shall be nailed to it; and his house shall be made a heap of rubble for this.

• Daniel 2:34

  You were looking until a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

• Daniel 2:35

  Then were crushed all together the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they became like the chaff of the threshing floors of summer; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth.

• Daniel 4:35

  And all the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing, and according to his will he does among the army of the heavens and the inhabitants of the earth; and there is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”