macha · wipe out, blot out

What it means

macha (מָחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wipe out, blot out”.

Remove completely, as one wipes a written tablet clean.

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 erase completely, or destroy someone.
2. To reach to a boundary.
3. Rich food, full of fat and marrow.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• blot out ×9
• be blotted out ×5
• blotted out ×3
• wiped out ×3
• I will wipe out ×2
• wipes ×2
• I will utterly ×1
• I will wipe ×1
• be wiped away ×1
• blot me out ×1
• others ×8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×4
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×4
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×4
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 6:7

  And YHWH said, “I will wipe out the human being whom I have created from the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I made them.”

• Genesis 7:4

  For in seven more days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that exists, which I have made, from the face of the ground.”

• Genesis 7:23

  And he wiped out all that existed that was on the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky; and they were wiped out from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

• Exodus 17:14

  YHWH said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book, and put it in the hearing of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”

• Exodus 32:32

  But now, if you will forgive their sin… and if not, blot me out, please, from your book that you have written.”

• Exodus 32:33

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him I will blot out from my book.

• Numbers 5:23

  And the priest shall write these imprecations in a scroll and wipe them off into the water of bitterness.

• Numbers 34:11

  and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east of Ain; and the border shall go down and reach the slope of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east;

• Deuteronomy 9:14

  Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they.”

• Deuteronomy 25:6

  And the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel.

• Deuteronomy 25:19

  Therefore it shall be, when YHWH your Elohim has given rest to you from all your enemies around, in the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. You shall not forget.

• Deuteronomy 29:20

  YHWH will not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of YHWH and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and every oath of imprecation written in this book will settle on him, and YHWH will blot out his name from under the heavens.

• Judges 21:17

  And they said, “There must be a possession for those who escaped of Benjamin, and a tribe must not be blotted out from Israel.

• 2 Kings 14:27

  But YHWH had not spoken of blotting out the name of Israel from under the heavens, so he saved them through Jeroboam son of Joash.

• 2 Kings 21:13

  I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

• Nehemiah 4:5

  Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you, for they have provoked to anger in front of the builders.

• Nehemiah 13:14

  Remember me, my Elohim, for this, and do not blot out my acts of loyal love that I have done in the house of my Elohim and in its charges.

• Psalms 9:5

  You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; their name you have blotted out forever and ever.

• Psalms 51:1

  For the director. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Show me favor, Elohim, according to your loyal love; according to the abundance of your mercies blot out my transgressions.

• Psalms 51:9

  Hide your face from my sins, and all my iniquities blot out.

• Psalms 69:28

  Let them be blotted out from the book of the living, and with the righteous let them not be written.

• Psalms 109:13

  Let his posterity be for cutting off; in another generation let their name be blotted out.

• Psalms 109:14

  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before YHWH, and the sin of his mother not be blotted out.

• Proverbs 6:33

  Blows and disgrace he will find, and his reproach will not be wiped away.

• Proverbs 30:20

  So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have not done wickedness.”

• Proverbs 31:3

  Do not give your vigor to women, nor your ways to those who destroy kings.

• Isaiah 25:6

  And YHWH Tsevaot will make for all the peoples on this mountain a feast of rich foods, a feast of aged wines, of rich foods full of marrow, of aged wines well refined.

• Isaiah 25:8

  He will swallow up death forever, and Adonai YHWH will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will remove from all the earth, for YHWH has spoken.

• Isaiah 43:25

  I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and your sins I will not remember.

• Isaiah 44:22

  I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins; return to me, for I have redeemed you.”

• Jeremiah 18:23

  But you, YHWH, know all their counsel against me for death; do not make expiation for their iniquity, and their sin from before you do not blot out; and let them be made to stumble before you; in the time of your anger act against them.

• Ezekiel 6:6

  In all your dwelling places the cities will be laid waste, and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and be guilty, and your idols will be broken and cease, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out.

And 4 more times.