Bible Names

Mahlah: meaning of the name

Mahlah means “Mahli, Mahlon, same as Mahali.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Mahlah in Hebrew and Greek

מַחְלָה H4244

Machlâh (makh-law') — Machlah, the name apparently of two Israelitesses

from H2470 (חָלָה); sickness;

Who named Mahlah in the Bible

Mahlah in Scripture

“Mahlah” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 26:33

    And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

  • Numbers 27:1

    Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

  • Numbers 36:11

    For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:

  • Joshua 17:3

    But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.