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

Exodus 17:14

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.”

Exodus 32:32

Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

Numbers 5:23

And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

Isaiah 43:25

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Exodus 32:33

The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

Genesis 7:23

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.

Genesis 7:4

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.”

Genesis 6:7

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).

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