מִיכָה
mi.khah
Micah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe word "Micha" (H4318K, mi.khah) is a proper name given to a specific person. It consists of two Hebrew characters, "Mi" meaning "who" and "Kha" possibly referring to the question "is his." This could imply a query or acknowledgment that the person was someone to be recognized, but we cannot say exactly in this context. Based on the data, this individual is known to be named in the Bible, and his name is mentioned twice. The significance of this word lies in identifying a human being who shared this name, whose life and identity are recorded in the biblical account.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
2 total occurrences across the text
“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “ ‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’
Micah 1:1Yahweh’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.