Strong's H4318 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מִיכָה (Mîykâh)

Pronunciation: mee-kaw'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Micah or Micaiah or Michah = "who is like God"

Derivation: an abbreviated form of מִיכָיָה (Mîykâyâh) [H4320];

Definition: Micah, the name of seven Israelites

KJV Renderings: Micah, Micaiah, Michah.

Senses

1. the 6th in order of the minor prophets; a native of Moresheth, he prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah, and was contemporary with the prophets Hosea, Amos, and Isaiah
2. an Ephraimite during the period of the judges
3. a descendant of Joel the Reubenite
4. son of Meribbaal and grandson of Jonathan
5. a Kohathite Levite, the eldest son of Uzziel the brother of Amram
6. father of Abdon, a man of high station in the reign of Josiah
7. son of Imlah and a prophet of Samaria who predicted the defeat and death of king Ahab of Israel

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.