Bible Names

Maachah: meaning of the name

Maachah means “pressed down; worn; fastened.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

People named Maachah in the Bible

Maachah in Scripture

“Maachah” appears in 18 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 22:24

    And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

  • 1 Kings 2:39

    And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

  • 1 Kings 15:2

    Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

  • 1 Kings 15:10

    And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

  • 1 Kings 15:13

    And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:48

    Maachah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.

  • 1 Chronicles 3:2

    The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:

  • 1 Chronicles 7:15

    And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.