Bible word study

Mekacceh (Strong’s H4374): Meaning in the Bible

Mekacceh (מְכַסֶּה) is the Hebrew word numbered H4374 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a covering, i.e. garment; specifically, a coverlet (for a bed), an awning (from the sun); also the omentum (as covering the intestines). In the King James Bible it is translated clothing, to cover, that which covereth..

• Original wordמְכַסֶּה
• Transliterationmᵉkaççeh
• Pronunciationmek-as-seh'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4374
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H3680;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Mekacceh appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Mekacceh (H4374) stands behind 4 English renderings in 4 verses across 3 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (2), Leviticus (1), Ezekiel (1).

How the King James Bible renders Mekacceh, by count

• clothing1 of 4 (25 percent)
• cover1 of 4 (25 percent)
• covered1 of 4 (25 percent)
• covereth1 of 4 (25 percent)

Three places to read Mekacceh

• Leviticus 9:19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
• Isaiah 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
• Isaiah 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Mekacceh in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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