Bible word study

Miqveh (Strong’s H4723): Meaning in the Bible

Miqveh (מִקְוֶה) is the Hebrew word numbered H4723 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as something waited for, i.e. confidence (objective or subjective); also a collection, i.e. (of water) a pond, or (of men and horses) a caravan or drove. In the King James Bible it is translated abiding, gathering together, hope, linen yarn, plenty (of water).

• Original wordמִקְוֶה
• Transliterationmiqveh
• Pronunciationmik-veh'
• Part of speechproper noun (masculine) (n-pr-m n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4723
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or מִקְוֵה; (1 Kings 10:28), or מִקְוֵאlemma מִּקְוֵא extra dagesh, corrected to מִקְוֵא; (2 Chronicles 1:16), from H6960;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Miqveh appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Miqveh (H4723) stands behind 12 English renderings in 10 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (3), 1 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (2).

How the King James Bible renders Miqveh, by count

• hope4 of 12 (33 percent)
• yarn4 of 12 (33 percent)
• abiding1 of 12 (8 percent)
• plenty1 of 12 (8 percent)
• pools1 of 12 (8 percent)
• together1 of 12 (8 percent)

Three places to read Miqveh

• Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
• 1 Kings 10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
• Ezra 10:2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

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 Miqveh 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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