Definition

Maakah (or Maakath), the name of a place in Syria, also of a Mesopotamian, of three Israelites, and of four Israelitesses and one Syrian woman

Etymology

or מַעֲכָת; (Joshua 13:13), from H4600 (מָעַךְ); depression;

Word family

• מָעַךְ mâʻak

How the KJV renders it

• Maachah
• Maachathites. See also H1038 (בֵּית מַעֲכָה)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.