Strong’s H1038 · Hebrew
בֵּית מַעֲכָה
Bêyth Maʻăkâh · bayth mah-ak-aw'
Origin from בַּיִת (H1004) and מַעֲכָה (H4601); house of Maakah;
Meaning Beth-Maakah, a place in Palestine
In the King James Version Beth-maachah.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Samuel 20:14And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
- 2 Samuel 20:15And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.