H4268: מַחֲסֶה
machăçeh · pronounced makh-as-eh' · “refuge”
Definition
a shelter (literally or figuratively)
KJV translates it as: hope, (place of) refuge, shelter, trust.
Word origin: or מַחְסֶה; from H2620 (חָסָה);
Extended definition
1a) from rain or storm, from danger
1b) of falsehood
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4268 is translated
- my ×8
- is a refuge ×2
- a refuge ×2
- shelter ×1
- his ×1
- are a refuge ×1
- refuge ×1
- a shelter ×1
- our ×1
- the refuge of ×1
- will be a refuge ×1
Bible verses with H4268 (machăçeh)
Machăçeh appears in 20 verses.
- Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- Psalms 14:6
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
- Psalms 46:1
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- Psalms 61:3
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
- Psalms 62:7
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
- Psalms 62:8
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
- Psalms 71:7
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
- Psalms 73:28
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.
- Psalms 91:2
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
- Psalms 91:9
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
- Psalms 94:22
But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
- Psalms 104:18
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
- Psalms 142:5
I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
- Proverbs 14:26
In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- Isaiah 4:6
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
- Isaiah 25:4
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
- Isaiah 28:15
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
- Isaiah 28:17
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
- Jeremiah 17:17
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
- Joel 3:16
The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.