Micah
Micah (Hebrew: מִיכָה, Modern Mikha Tiberian Mîḵā; pronounced /
ˈmaɪkə/ in English) is a given name.
Micah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible (Old
Testament), and means "who is like God?", in the sense that
God is unique. The name is sometimes found with theophoric
extensions. Suffix theophory in Yah and in Yahweh results in
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Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took
two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder,
who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they
were in the house of Micah....
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Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king
of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field,
and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
house as the high places of a forest....
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And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from
their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to
spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them,
Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to
the house of Micah, they lodged there....
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(who is like God?), the same name as Micaiah. [MICAIAH]
1. An Israelite whose familiar story is preserved in
the 17th and 18th chapters of Judges. Micah is evidently a
devout believers in Jehovah, and yet so completely ignorant
is he of the law of Jehovah that the mode which he adopts of
honoring him is to make a molten and graven image, terap...
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a shortened form of Micaiah, who is like Jehovah? (1.) A
man of
Mount Ephraim, whose history so far is introduced in
Judg. 17,
apparently for the purpose of leading to an account
of the
settlement of the tribe of Dan in Northern Israel,
and for
the purpose also of illustrating the lawlessness of
the times in
which he lived (Judg. 18; 19:1...
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1. Of Mount Ephraim. (See JONATHAN.) The date of the event
is implied as before Samson, for the origin of the name
Mahaneh Dan occurs in this narrative (Judges 18:12) and it
is mentioned as already so named in Samson's childhood
(Judges 13:25, margin). Josephus places the synchronous
narrative of the Levite and his concubine at the beginning
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mi'-ka (mikhah, contracted from mikhayahu, "who is like Yah?
"; Codex Vaticanus, Meichaias; Codex Alexandrinus, Micha;
sometimes in the King James Version spelled Michah):
(1) The chief character of an episode given as an appendix
to the Book of Judges (Jdg 17; 18). Micah, a dweller in Mt.
Ephraim, was the founder and owner of a small private
s...
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-1. An Ephraimite
His robbery and idolatry
Jud 17; 18
-2. Head of a family of Reuben
1Ch 5:5
-3. Also called MICHA
Son of Mephibosheth
2Sa 9:12; 1Ch 8:34,35; 9:40,41
-4. Also called MICHAH
A Kohathite
1Ch 23:20; 24:24,25
-5. Father of Abdon
2Ch 34:20
-6. One of the minor prophets
Jer 26:18,19; Mic 1:1,14,15
Denounces the idolatry of ...
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