maachati · Maacathite

What it means

maachati (מַעֲכָתִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Maacathite”.

An inhabitant of Maacah, a small kingdom north of Bashan.

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 person from Maacah, a small kingdom north of Bashan.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• Maacathite ×5
• Maacathites ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Deuteronomy 3:14

  Jair son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them by his name, Bashan Havvoth-jair, to this day.)

• Joshua 12:5

  and ruled over Mount Hermon and over Salecah and over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathite, and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

• Joshua 13:11

  and Gilead, and the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah;

• Joshua 13:13

  But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites, and Geshur and Maacath live in the midst of Israel to this day.

• 2 Samuel 23:34

  Eliphelet son of Ahasbai son of the Maacathite; Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite;

• 2 Kings 25:23

  All the chiefs of the forces, they and the men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, and they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah: Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

• 1 Chronicles 4:19

  And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

• Jeremiah 40:8

  and they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah: Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan, sons of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite, they and their men.