Bible Names

Micah: meaning of the name

Micah means “poor; humble.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Micah in Hebrew and Greek

מִיכָה H4318

Mîykâh (mee-kaw') — Micah, the name of seven Israelites

an abbreviated form of H4320 (מִיכָיָה);

מִיכָיְהוּ H4321

Mîykâyᵉhûw (me-kaw-yeh-hoo') — Mikajah, the name of three Israelites

or מִכָיְהוּ; (Jeremiah 36:11), abbreviated form for H4322 (מִיכָיָהוּ);

People named Micah in the Bible

Micah in Scripture

“Micah” appears in 28 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Judges 17:1

    And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

  • Judges 17:4

    Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

  • Judges 17:5

    And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

  • Judges 17:8

    And the man departed out of the city from Beth–lehem–judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

  • Judges 17:9

    And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth–lehem–judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

  • Judges 17:10

    And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

  • Judges 17:12

    And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

  • Judges 17:13

    Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.