Strong's Hebrew · H4239

H4239 mᵉchîy

מְחִי

mekh-ee'

blow

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mᵉchîy appears once in Scripture, in Ezekiel 26:9. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a stroke, i.e. battering-ram

In the King James Version

engines.

Derivation

from H4229 (מָחָה);

Appears 1 time in Scripture

Ezekiel 26:9

“He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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