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Lexicon :: Strong's H4725 - māqôm

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מָקוֹם
Transliteration
māqôm
Pronunciation
maw-kome'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1999h

Strong’s Definitions

מָקוֹם mâqôwm, maw-kome'; or מָקֹם mâqôm; also (feminine) מְקוֹמָה mᵉqôwmâh; or מְקֹמָה mᵉqômâh; from H6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind):—country, × home, × open, place, room, space, × whither(-soever).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 402x

The KJV translates Strong's H4725 in the following manner: place (391x), home (3x), room (3x), whithersoever (2x), open (1x), space (1x), country (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 402x
The KJV translates Strong's H4725 in the following manner: place (391x), home (3x), room (3x), whithersoever (2x), open (1x), space (1x), country (1x).
  1. standing place, place

    1. standing place, station, post, office

    2. place, place of human abode

    3. city, land, region

    4. place, locality, spot

    5. space, room, distance

    6. region, quarter, direction

    7. give place to, instead of

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָקוֹם mâqôwm, maw-kome'; or מָקֹם mâqôm; also (feminine) מְקוֹמָה mᵉqôwmâh; or מְקֹמָה mᵉqômâh; from H6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind):—country, × home, × open, place, room, space, × whither(-soever).
STRONGS H4725: Abbreviations
מָקוֺם, מָקֹם (Exodus 29:31, etc.) 399 noun masculineGenesis 19:13 (but see below), standing-place, place; — absolute מ׳ Exodus 21:13 +; construct מְקוֺם Genesis 12:6 + (often before אֲשֶׁר Genesis 39:20 +); suffix מְקוֺמוֺ 1 Samuel 3:2 +, מְקֹמוֺ Genesis 18:33 +, etc.; plural usually מְקֹמוֺת Judges 19:13 +, מְקוֺמוֺת 1 Samuel 7:16; Jeremiah 29:14, מֹ֑ת 2 Samuel 17:9 + 2 times; suffix מְקוֺמֹתֵיכֶם Amos 4:6, etc. [apparently feminine (not Genesis 18:24, where עִיר is in mind, but) Job 20:9 (emendation see Commentaries), and Manuscripts (either Kt of Qr) Judges 19:13; 2 Samuel 17:9, 12; mostly explained away by AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 53]; —
1.
a. standing-place Exodus 3:5 (E), Joshua 5:15; Exodus 33:21; Numbers 23:13, 27 (all J E), Genesis 19:27 (J), Joshua 3:3 (D), of מַצֵּבוֺת, etc., 2 Kings 23:14, of ark (place where it is set, stands) 1 Kings 8:7 2 Chronicles 5:8, earth Isaiah 13:13; Job 9:6, rock Job 14:18; Job 18:4; compare Job 38:12, 19.
b. station, where soldiers are placed Joshua 8:19 (JE), Judges 20:33 (twice in verse); post in battle 2 Samuel 11:16.
c. post, office 1 Kings 20:24; Ecclesiastes 10:4.
2.
a. place where a thing belongs Genesis 29:3 (J), Joshua 4:18 (JE), 1 Samuel 5:3; Isaiah 46:7; Job 6:17; Job 37:1 (of the heart), Ecclesiastes 1:5; especially of ark 1 Samuel 5:11 + 9 times; of person = destination Judges 11:19.
b. especially
(1) place of human abode Genesis 13:14; Genesis 20:13; Judges 7:7; 1 Samuel 2:20 + 42 times, + מְקוֺם אָהֳלֵךְ Isaiah 54:2.
(2) of י׳'s abode Hosea 5:15, in heaven Micah 1:3; Isaiah 26:21; 1 Kings 8:30 2 Chronicles 6:21.
(3) lair of lion (figurative) Jeremiah 4:7.
3.place =
a. city Genesis 18:24, 26; Genesis 20:11; Deuteronomy 21:19 (|| עִיר) 2 Kings 18:25 + 39 times (1 Samuel 7:16 הַמִּקְדָּשִׁים Greek Version of the LXX, compare We HPS).
b. of land: Canaan Exodus 23:20; 1 Samuel 12:8; Jeremiah 16:2, 3(|| אֶרֶץ) + 17 times (12 times Jeremiah); Philistia 1 Samuel 14:46; Egypt Jeremiah 44:29; appositive מְדִינָה Esther 4:3, = מְדִינָה + עִיר Esther 8:17.
c. plot, parcel, of ground Isaiah 7:23; מְקוֺם הַגֹּרֶן 1 Chronicles 21:22, compare 1 Chronicles 21:25; 2 Chronicles 3:1.
d. land, region Numbers 20:5; Numbers 32:1; Che (privately) proposes בִּמְקֹם בְּקָעוֺת Psalm 84:7 (for בְּעֵמֶק הַבָּכָא; compare Isaiah 41:18).
4. in general, place, locality, spot Genesis 28:16, 17; Judges 2:5; Amos 4:6; Nehemiah 4:6; Nehemiah 4:7; Nehemiah 4:14 + (221 times in all); אַלְמֹנִי פְּלֹנִי מְקוֺם place of such a one1 Samuel 21:3; 2 Kings 6:8; בְּכָלהַֿמָּקוֺם אֲשֶׁר Exodus 20:24 (E; gi Exodus 20:21) in all places that; בְּכָלמֿ׳ Numbers 18:31 = anywhere, compare Deuteronomy 12:13; = everywhere Proverbs 15:13; Malachi 1:11, compare Amos 8:3; צָר מ׳ Numbers 22:26 narrow place; מ׳ Nehemiah 2:14 (passable) place; in particular: place at banquet † 1 Samuel 9:22; 1 Samuel 20:25, 27; sleeping-place, couch, † 1 Samuel 3:2, 9; Ruth 4:10; מְקוֺם הַחֵ֑צִי 1 Samuel 20:37 i.e. where arrow fell; = haunt, lurking-place 1 Samuel 23:22; 2 Samuel 17:9, 12; מְקוֺם תַּנִּים Psalm 44:20 place of jackals, i.e. desert; הַמֻּנָּח מְ׳ Ezekiel 41:11b place of the uncovered space, portion (compare הַמֻּנָּח alone Ezekiel 41:11a); הַשֶּׁבֶת מְ׳ of seat of Solomon's throne 1 Kings 10:19 2 Chronicles 9:18; אֶחָד מ׳ where waters were collected Genesis 1:9 (Greek Version of the LXX Ball מִקְוֶה), Psalm 104:8 destination of dead Ecclesiastes 3:30; Ecclesiastes 6:6; מ׳ = resting-place Job 16:18; נֶאֱמָן מ׳ sure place, for a peg (securely fastened) Isaiah 22:23, 25 (figurative, compare Ezra 9:8); of places, spots, on the body: leprous spot † 2 Kings 5:11; הַשְּׁחִין מְ׳ Leviticus 13:19 place of the boil; especially of shrine, sanctuary (compare We1 Samuel 7:16), מְקוֺם שְׁכֶם Genesis 12:6 (J; see Di Holz), so of Bethel Genesis 13:3 (J), Genesis 13:4 (J; מְקוֺם הַמִּזְבֵּחַ), Genesis 28:19 (J), Genesis 28:11; Genesis 28:11; Genesis 28:11 (E), Genesis 22:3, 4, 9, 14; (E), +; of idolatrous shrines Deuteronomy 12:2, 3; Ezekiel 6:13; 2 Chronicles 33:19; especially of temple: י׳) אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר הַמּ׳ (אֱלֹהֵיכֶם בּוֺ Deuteronomy 12:5, 14; Deuteronomy 14:23, 25; Deuteronomy 15:20; Deuteronomy 16:2, 6; Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 18:6 + 13 times Deuteronomy + Joshua 9:27 (D), Nehemiah 1:9; מ׳ 1 Kings 8:29 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 8:30, 35 2 Chronicles 6:20 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 6:21, 26; Jeremiah 27:22 +; צְבָאוֺת הַרצִֿיּוֺן שֵׁםיֿ׳ מְ׳ Isaiah 18:7; כִּסְאִי מְ׳ Ezekiel 43:7; מִקְדָּשֵׁנוּ מְ׳ Jeremiah 17:12; מִקְדָּשִׁי מְ׳ Isaiah 60:3; קָדְשׁוֺ מְ׳ Ezra 9:8; Psalm 24:3, etc.; of tabernacle הַקֹּדֶשׁ מְ׳ Leviticus 10:17; Leviticus 14:30; קָדוֺשׁ מ׳ in or about tabernacle, Exodus 29:31; Leviticus 6:9; Leviticus 6:19; Leviticus 6:20 + (all P), קָדוֺשׁ מְ׳ Ecclesiastes 8:10. Note especially † מְקוֺם before rel. clause, with אֲשֶׁר Genesis 39:20; Genesis 40:3; Ezekiel 6:13; Esther 4:3; Esther 8:17, with שֶׁ Ecclesiastes 1:7; Ecclesiastes 3:16, rel. omitted Job 18:21; also אֲשֶׁר בִּמְ׳ Hosea 2:1; 2 Samuel 15:21; 1 Kings 21:19; Jeremiah 22:12; Ezekiel 21:35; Nehemiah 4:14; Leviticus 4:24, 33; Leviticus 6:18; Leviticus 7:2; Leviticus 14:13; Numbers 9:17 (Ges§ 130 c).
†5.
b. space, distance, between (בֵּין) 1 Samuel 26:13.
†6. region, quarter, direction Ezekiel 10:11; אַחֵר מִמּ׳ Esther 4:14 from another quarter, source.
†7. peculiar uses are:
a. לְ נָתַן מ׳ Judges 20:36 give place (yield ground) to. Perhaps
b. אֲשֶׁר יֵאָמֵר בִּמְ׳ Hosea 2:1 instead of its being said (compare תַּחַת); מְקוֺם נְחָרִים Isaiah 33:21 instead of rivers (i.e. a substitute for them). — מְקוֺמָהּ Nahum 1:8 (|| אֹיְבָיו) read מִקָּמָיו or בְּק׳ BuhlZAW v (1885), 181, מִתְקוֺמְמָו We, בְּקָמָיו Now (all = his adversaries, compare GASm).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:9; 12:6; 12:6; 13:3; 13:4; 13:14; 18:24; 18:24; 18:26; 18:33; 19:13; 19:27; 20:11; 20:13; 22:3; 22:4; 22:9; 22:14; 24:23; 24:25; 24:31; 28:11; 28:11; 28:11; 28:16; 28:17; 28:19; 29:3; 39:20; 39:20; 40:3

Exodus

3:5; 20:21; 20:24; 21:13; 23:20; 29:31; 29:31; 33:21

Leviticus

4:24; 4:33; 6:9; 6:18; 6:19; 6:20; 7:2; 10:17; 13:19; 14:13; 14:30

Numbers

9:17; 18:31; 20:5; 22:26; 23:13; 23:27; 32:1

Deuteronomy

12:2; 12:3; 12:5; 12:13; 12:14; 14:23; 14:25; 15:20; 16:2; 16:6; 17:8; 18:6; 21:19

Joshua

3:3; 4:18; 5:15; 8:19; 9:27

Judges

2:5; 7:7; 11:19; 19:13; 19:13; 20:33; 20:36

Ruth

4:10

1 Samuel

2:20; 3:2; 3:2; 3:9; 5:3; 5:11; 7:16; 7:16; 7:16; 9:22; 12:8; 14:46; 20:25; 20:27; 20:37; 21:3; 23:22; 26:13

2 Samuel

11:16; 15:21; 17:9; 17:9; 17:9; 17:12; 17:12

1 Kings

8:7; 8:29; 8:30; 8:30; 8:35; 10:19; 20:24; 21:19

2 Kings

5:11; 6:8; 18:25; 23:14

1 Chronicles

21:22; 21:25

2 Chronicles

3:1; 5:8; 6:20; 6:21; 6:21; 6:26; 9:18; 33:19

Ezra

9:8; 9:8

Nehemiah

1:9; 2:14; 4:6; 4:7; 4:14; 4:14

Esther

4:3; 4:3; 4:14; 8:17; 8:17

Job

6:17; 9:6; 14:18; 16:18; 18:4; 18:21; 20:9; 37:1; 38:12; 38:19

Psalms

24:3; 44:20; 84:7; 104:8

Proverbs

15:13

Ecclesiastes

1:5; 1:7; 3:16; 6:6; 8:10; 10:4

Isaiah

5:8; 7:23; 13:13; 18:7; 22:23; 22:25; 26:21; 28:8; 33:21; 41:18; 46:7; 54:2; 60:3

Jeremiah

4:7; 7:32; 16:2; 16:3; 17:12; 19:11; 22:12; 27:22; 29:14; 44:29

Ezekiel

6:13; 6:13; 10:11; 41:11; 41:11; 43:7

Hosea

2:1; 2:1; 5:15

Amos

4:6; 4:6; 8:3

Micah

1:3

Nahum

1:8

Malachi

1:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4725 matches the Hebrew מָקוֹם (māqôm),
which occurs 401 times in 379 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 8 (Gen 1:9–Exo 20:24)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 -

Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place H4725, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - And Abram passed through the land as far as the site H4725 of Shechem, to the [fn]oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went [fn]on his journeys from the [fn]Negev as far as Bethel, to the place H4725 where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place H4725 of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called upon the name of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 -

And Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place H4725 where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - “Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will You indeed sweep it away and not [fn]spare the place H4725 for the sake of the fifty righteous who are in it?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - So Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will [fn]spare the whole place H4725 on their account.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - And as soon as He had finished speaking to Abraham, Yahweh departed, and Abraham returned to his place H4725.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 -

Then the two men said to Lot, “Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and everyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place H4725;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:13 - for we are about to destroy this place H4725 because their outcry has become great before Yahweh, so Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who [fn]were to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place H4725, for Yahweh will destroy the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law [fn]to be jesting.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 -

Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place H4725 where he had stood before Yahweh;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - And Abraham said, “Because I said, surely there is no fear of God in this place H4725, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - and it happened when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is [fn]the lovingkindness which you will show to me: [fn]everywhere H4725 we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - Therefore he called that place H4725 Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place H4725 of which God had told him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:4 - On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place H4725 from a distance.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 -

Then they came to the place H4725 of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood and bound his son Isaac and put him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:14 - And Abraham called the name of that place H4725 [fn]Yahweh Will Provide, as it is said this day, “In the mount of Yahweh it will [fn]be provided.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there a place H4725 for us to lodge in your father’s house?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - And she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and a place H4725 to lodge in.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:31 - And he said, “Come in, blessed of Yahweh! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house and a place H4725 for the camels?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - Then the men of the place H4725 asked about his wife. And he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place H4725 kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful in appearance.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - And he reached [fn]a certain place H4725 and spent the night there because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place H4725 and put it [fn]under his head and lay down in that place H4725.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place H4725, and I did not know it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:17 - And he was afraid and said, “How fearsome is this place H4725! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - And he called the name of that place H4725 [fn]Bethel; however, [fn]previously the name of the city had been Luz.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - And all the flocks would be gathered there, and they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and give water to the sheep to drink and return the stone back to its place H4725 on the mouth of the well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - And Laban gathered all the men of the place H4725 and made a feast.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - But Laban said, “It is not [fn]the practice in our place H4725 to give the younger before the firstborn.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 -

Now it happened when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place H4725 and to my own land.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - [fn]And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place H4725.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - Then Jacob said when he saw them, “This is God’s [fn]camp.” So he named that place H4725 [fn]Mahanaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:30 - So Jacob named the place H4725 [fn]Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my [fn]life has been delivered.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:17 - But Jacob journeyed to [fn]Succoth and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place H4725 is named Succoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - And he built an altar there and called the place H4725 [fn]El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled [fn]from his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:13 -

Then God went up from him in the place H4725 where He had spoken with him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:14 - And Jacob set up a pillar in the place H4725 where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:15 - So Jacob named the place H4725 where God had spoken with him, [fn]Bethel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:40 -

Now these are the names of the chiefs [fn]descended from Esau, according to their families and their places H4725, by their names: chief Timna, chief [fn]Alvah, chief Jetheth,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - So he asked the men of her place H4725, saying, “Where is the cult prostitute who was by the road at Enaim?” But they said, “There has been no cult prostitute here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So he returned to Judah and said, “I did not find her; and furthermore, the men of the place H4725 said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the jail, the place H4725 where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place H4725 where Joseph was imprisoned.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - Then He said, “Do not come near here. Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place H4725 on which you are standing is holy ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - “So I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place H4725 of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:29 - “See, Yahweh has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place H4725 on the seventh day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:7 - So he named the place H4725 [fn]Massah and [fn]Meribah because of the contending of the sons of Israel, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us or not?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:23 - “If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to [fn]endure, and all [fn]these people also will go to [fn]their place H4725 in peace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - ‘You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place H4725 where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

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