machase · refuge, shelter

What it means

machase (מַחֲסֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “refuge, shelter”.

A refuge, a place to take cover.

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. A safe place where one hides from danger; above all, God himself.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Psalms×12
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×1

• Job 24:8

  With the downpour of the mountains they are drenched, and for lack of refuge they hug the rock.

• Psalms 14:6

  The counsel of the afflicted you put to shame, for YHWH is his refuge.

• Psalms 46:1

  For the director. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamot. A song. Elohim is for us a refuge and strength, a help in distresses very easily found.

• Psalms 61:3

  For you have been a refuge for me, a tower of strength in the face of the enemy.

• Psalms 62:7

  Upon Elohim rests my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, my refuge is in Elohim.

• Psalms 62:8

  Trust in him at all times, people; pour out before him your heart; Elohim is a refuge for us. Selah.

• Psalms 71:7

  Like a portent I have been to many, but you are my refuge of strength.

• Psalms 73:28

  But as for me, the nearness of Elohim to me is good; I have placed my refuge in Adonai YHWH, to recount all your works.

• Psalms 91:2

  I will say to YHWH, “My refuge and my fortress, my Elohim, in whom I trust.”

• Psalms 91:9

  For you, YHWH, are my refuge! Elyon you have made your dwelling place;

• Psalms 94:22

  But YHWH has been for me a high refuge, and my Elohim the rock of my refuge.

• Psalms 104:18

  The high mountains are for the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the hyraxes.

• Psalms 142:5

  I have cried out to you, YHWH; I have said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

• Proverbs 14:26

  In the fear of YHWH is strong confidence, and for his sons there will be a refuge.

• Isaiah 4:6

  And there will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a hiding place from the downpour and from the rain.

• Isaiah 25:4

  For you have been a stronghold for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the downpour, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the tyrants is like a downpour against a wall.

• Isaiah 28:15

  Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made an agreement; the sweeping whip, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made a lie our refuge, and in falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

• Isaiah 28:17

  And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will carry away the refuge of lies, and the hiding place, waters will sweep it away.

• Jeremiah 17:17

  Do not be to me a terror; my refuge are you in the day of evil.

• Joel 3:16

  And YHWH roars from Zion, and from Jerusalem utters his voice, and the heavens and the earth shake; but YHWH is a refuge for his people, and a stronghold for the children of Israel.