micha · Micah

What it means

micha (מִיכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Micah”.

Short form of the name "Micaiah" ("who is like YHWH?"). Several people bear it: the man from the hill country of Ephraim (Judges 17-18) and, centuries later, the prophet Micah.

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.

How it is translated

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

• Micah ×32
• Micaiah ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×19
• 1 Chronicles×9
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Micah×1

• Judges 17:5

  And the man Micah had a house of Elohim, and he made an ephod and teraphim and ordained one of his sons, and he became his priest.

• Judges 17:8

  And the man went from the city, from Bethlehem of Judah, to reside as an alien wherever he might find a place; and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, as far as the house of Micah, as he went on his way.

• Judges 17:9

  And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem of Judah, and I am going to reside as an alien wherever I may find a place.”

• Judges 17:10

  And Micah said to him, “Stay with me and be for me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year, and a set of clothes, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went.

• Judges 17:12

  And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and he was in the house of Micah.

• Judges 17:13

  And Micah said, “Now I know that YHWH will do good to me, for the Levite has become my priest.”

• Judges 18:2

  So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, as far as the house of Micah, and spent the night there.

• Judges 18:3

  They were near the house of Micah, and they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite; and they turned aside there and said to him, “Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what is there for you here?”

• Judges 18:4

  And he said to them, “Thus and thus Micah has done for me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”

• Judges 18:13

  And they passed on from there to the hill country of Ephraim and came as far as the house of Micah.

• Judges 18:15

  So they turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, at the house of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.

• Judges 18:18

  These men went into Micah’s house and took the carved image of the ephod, the teraphim, and the cast image; and the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

• Judges 18:22

  They had gone some distance from the house of Micah, when the men who were in the houses that were near the house of Micah were summoned and overtook the sons of Dan.

• Judges 18:23

  And they called out to the sons of Dan; and they turned their faces and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have been summoned?”

• Judges 18:26

  And the sons of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he turned and went back to his house.

• Judges 18:27

  And they took what Micah had made, and the priest who had been his, and came upon Laish, upon a people at rest and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and the city they burned with fire.

• Judges 18:31

  So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image that he had made, all the days that the house of Elohim was in Shiloh.

• 1 Chronicles 5:5

  Micah, his son; Reaiah, his son; Baal, his son;

• 1 Chronicles 8:34

  And the son of Jonathan: Merib-baal; and Merib-baal fathered Micah.

• 1 Chronicles 8:35

  And the sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

• 1 Chronicles 9:40

  And the son of Jonathan: Merib-baal; and Merib-baal fathered Micah.

• 1 Chronicles 9:41

  And the sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, and Tahrea.

• 1 Chronicles 23:20

  The sons of Uzziel: Micah the head, and Isshiah the second.

• 1 Chronicles 24:24

  The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.

• 1 Chronicles 24:25

  The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.

• 2 Chronicles 18:14

  When he came to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to war, or shall I refrain?” He said, “Go up and prosper, for they will be given into your hand.”

• 2 Chronicles 34:20

  The king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying,

• Nehemiah 11:17

  and Mattaniah son of Micah, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, head of the beginning, who gave thanks in the prayer; and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.

• Jeremiah 26:18

  “Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house high places of a forest.’

• Micah 1:1

  The word of YHWH that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

And 3 more times.