King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H4723
Transliteration: miqveh
Phonetic Spelling: (mik-veh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a hope
Meaning: something waited for, confidence, a collection, a pond, a caravan, drove
Word Summary
miqveh: a hope
Original Word: מַקְוֶהTransliteration: miqveh
Phonetic Spelling: (mik-veh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a hope
Meaning: something waited for, confidence, a collection, a pond, a caravan, drove
Strong's Concordance
abiding, gathering together, hope, linen yarn, plenty of water, pool Or miqveh (1 Kings 10:28) {mik-vay'}; or miqvet (2 Chron. 1:16) {mik-vay'}; from qavah; 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 -- abiding, gathering together, hope, linen yarn, plenty (of water), pool.
see HEBREW qavah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4723. miqveh
קוא only in מִקְוֵא see II. מִקְוֶה below II. קוה.
קֹוֶה, or קֹוֵא proper name, of a territory Kuë in Cilicia (compare KAT2. 257); מִקֹוֶה from Kuë, for מִקְוֵה ᵑ0 1 Kings 10:28 (twice in verse) and "" מִקְוֵא2 Chronicles 1:16 (twice in verse); so WklAlttest. Unters. 173 Gr Benz Kit, compare ᵐ5 ἐκ Θεκουε (also ἐκ Κωα FieldHexapla i. 616), ᵑ9 de Coa, Κωδ LagOnom. 273, Jerome Coa Id.ibid. 111.
I. מִקְוֶה noun [masculine] hope; — absolute ׳מ 1 Chronicles 29:15; Ezra 10:2; construct in phrase יִשְׂרָאֵל מִקְוֵה, epithet of ׳י Jeremiah 14:8; 17:13, compare 50:7.
II. [מִקְוֶה] noun [masculine] collection, collected mass (P); — construct מִקְוֵךְ Genesis 1:10 (מִקְוֶה also 1:9, for מָקוֺם according to ᵐ5 Ball), Exodus 7:19; Leviticus 11:36, all of water. ׳מ ֯ 1 Kings 10:28 (twice in verse) = מִקְוֵא2 Chronicles 1:16 (company of merchants; drove of houses), see קֹוֶה