Strong's Hebrew · H4229
מָחָה
mâchâh · maw-khaw'
abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, [idiom] utterly, wipe (away, out).
Definition
properly, to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 36 times in Scripture
“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.””
“Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.””
“And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.”
“I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.”
“The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.”
“And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.”
“For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.””
“So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.””
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).