מִיכָה
mi.khah
Micah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredSource data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
19 total occurrences across the text
The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Judges 17:8The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
Judges 17:9Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
Judges 17:10Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.
Judges 17:12Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Judges 17:12Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Judges 17:13Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
Judges 18:2The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18:3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”
Judges 18:4He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
Judges 18:13They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
Judges 18:15They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
Judges 18:18When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
Judges 18:22When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.
Judges 18:22When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.
Judges 18:23As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”
Judges 18:26The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
Judges 18:27They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.
Judges 18:31So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.