מַכָּה

1. a. blow, stripe, literally of scourging, chastising 5 Mos 25,3; Ord 20,30 (|| חַבֻּרוֺת פֶּצַע); מַכַּת חֶרֶב Est 9,5 (as accusative of congnate meaning with verb).
\ \ b. beating, scourging, figurative of defeat of Midian Es 10,26 (|| עוֺרֵר שׁוֺט).
\ \ c. often wound 1 Kong 22,35; 2 Kong 8,29; 2 Kong 9,15 = 2 Kron 22,6 (read ׳מִןהַֿמּ), Zak 13,6 (בֵּין יָדֶיךָ); symbolic of violence Jer 6,7 (+ חֳלִי); פֶּצַע וְחַבּוּרָה וּמַכָּה טְרִיָּה Es 1,6 (of Judah, under figure of maltreated man), compare Mik 1,9 אֲנוּשָׁה׳מ), Nah 3,19 (|| שֶׁבֶר; of Nineveh), especially in Jeremiah (of Judah): Jer 10,19; Jer 14,17; Jer 30,12 (all + נַחֲלָה severe; || שֶׁבֶר), Jer 15,18 (אֲנוּשָׁה ׳מ), Jer 19,8; Jer 47,17; Jer 50,13, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb Jer 30,14, with verb רָפָא heal vJer 30,17 also ׳מַחַץ מ Es 30,26 (|| שֶׁבֶר); of wounds made by ׳י's arrows Sl 64,8.

2. = slaughter 1 Sam 4,10; 1 Sam 14,30, usually as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with הִכָּה Jos 10,20; 1 Sam 6,19; 1 Sam 14,14; 1 Sam 19,8; 1 Sam 23,5; 1 Kong 20,21; 2 Kron 13,17.

3. = defeat, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb with הִכָּה Jos 10,10; Jos 11,33; Jos 15,8; 2 Kron 28,5 = conquest (of ׳י) Es 14,6.

4. plague, especially disease, as punishment (of ׳י), 1 Sam 4,8; 5 Mos 28,59 (3 t. in verse) (|| חֳלִי), v5 Mos 28,61 (|| id.), 5 Mos 29,21 (|| תַּחֲלֻאִים), 3 Mos 26,21 (H), as accusative of congnate meaning with verb 4 Mos 11,33. — מַכּוֺת 2 Kron 2,9 read מַכֹּלֶת (see אכל) as || 1 Kong 5,25, so ᵐ5 ᵑ9 Be Öttli and Th^{1 Kong 5,25}.