michal · Michal

What it means

michal (מִיכָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Michal”.

The younger daughter of King Saul and wife of David (1 Samuel 14:49; 18:27).

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.

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×10
• 2 Samuel×7
• 1 Chronicles×1

• 1 Samuel 14:49

  The sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the name of his two daughters: the name of the firstborn, Merab, and the name of the younger, Michal.

• 1 Samuel 18:20

  Michal, daughter of Saul, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing was right in his eyes.

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  when David arose and went, he and his men, and struck among the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they counted them out in full to the king, to become son-in-law to the king. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

• 1 Samuel 18:28

  Saul saw and knew that YHWH was with David, and Michal, daughter of Saul, loved him.

• 1 Samuel 19:11

  Saul sent messengers to the house of David to watch him and to put him to death in the morning. And Michal his wife told David, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.”

• 1 Samuel 19:12

  Michal let David down through the window, and he went and fled and escaped.

• 1 Samuel 19:13

  Michal took the teraphim and laid them on the bed, and a weave of goats’ hair she put at its head, and covered them with the garment.

• 1 Samuel 19:17

  Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let go my enemy, so that he has escaped?” And Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go; why should I put you to death?’”

• 1 Samuel 25:44

  But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

• 2 Samuel 3:13

  He said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you. Only one thing I ask of you, namely: you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal the daughter of Saul when you come to see my face.”

• 2 Samuel 3:14

  David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, saying, “Give me my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

• 2 Samuel 6:16

  And as the ark of YHWH was coming into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before YHWH; and she despised him in her heart.

• 2 Samuel 6:20

  David returned to bless his household, and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel has honored himself today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the slave women of his servants, as one of the empty ones shamelessly uncovers himself!”

• 2 Samuel 6:21

  David said to Michal, “Before YHWH, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to command me to be leader over the people of YHWH, over Israel, before YHWH I will celebrate.

• 2 Samuel 6:23

  And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child until the day of her death.

• 2 Samuel 21:8

  The king took the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite,

• 1 Chronicles 15:29

  And it happened that as the ark of the covenant of YHWH was coming to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and celebrating; and she despised him in her heart.

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