machon · fixed place

What it means

machon (מָכוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fixed place”.

Dwelling place; foundation.

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. The firm place where God dwells; also, what holds up his throne.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• place ×12
• are the base ×2
• base ×1
• bases ×1
• site ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×2
• Daniel×1

• Exodus 15:17

  You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, the place for you to dwell in that you have made, YHWH, the sanctuary, Adonai, that your hands have established.

• 1 Kings 8:13

  I have surely built an exalted house for you, a place for you to live in forever.”

• 1 Kings 8:39

  then you listen in the heavens, the place where you live, and forgive, and act, and give to each according to all his ways, whose heart you know — for you alone know the heart of all human beings —

• 1 Kings 8:43

  you listen in the heavens, the place where you live, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel do, and to know that your name is called over this house that I have built.

• 1 Kings 8:49

  then listen in the heavens, the place where you live, to their prayer and their supplication, and do justice for them;

• 2 Chronicles 6:2

  And I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to live in forever.”

• 2 Chronicles 6:30

  then you listen from the heavens, the place where you live, and forgive, and give to each according to all his ways, whose heart you know —for you alone know the heart of human beings—

• 2 Chronicles 6:33

  then you listen from the heavens, from the place where you live, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you as your people Israel does, and may know that your name is called over this house that I have built.

• 2 Chronicles 6:39

  then listen from the heavens, from the place where you live, their prayer and their supplications, and do justice for them, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

• Ezra 2:68

  And some of the heads of the fathers’ houses, when they came to the house of YHWH which is in Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of Elohim, to set it up on its base.

• Psalms 33:14

  From the place of his dwelling he observed all the inhabitants of the earth,

• Psalms 89:14

  Righteousness and justice are the base of your throne; loyal love and faithfulness come to meet your face.

• Psalms 97:2

  Cloud and thick cloud surround him; righteousness and justice are the base of his throne.

• Psalms 104:5

  He founded the earth on its bases; it will not be shaken forever and ever.

• Isaiah 4:5

  And YHWH will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her convocations a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.

• Isaiah 18:4

  For thus YHWH said to me: “I will be still and look from my dwelling place, like dazzling heat over the light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

• Daniel 8:11

  And it made itself great even up to the Prince of the army; and from him the continual sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was thrown down.