מִיכַל

mi.khalMichal
hebrewOld TestamentName of a woman18 occurrences3 books17 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people in the Bible:
  • Merab: Eldest daughter of King Saul
  • Michal: Daughter of Saul; wife of David

Definition

apparently the same as H4323; revulet; Mikal, Saul's daughter
Traditional renderings: Michal.

Glossary entries

Michal Merab

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

18 total
  1. 1 Samuel 14:49מִיכַֽל׃ · and Michal
    Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
  2. 1 Samuel 18:20מִיכַ֥ל · Michal
    Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
  3. 1 Samuel 18:27מִיכַ֥ל · Michal
    David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
  4. 1 Samuel 18:28וּמִיכַ֥ל · Michal
    When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
  5. 1 Samuel 19:11מִיכַ֤ל · Michal
    Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
  6. 1 Samuel 19:12מִיכַ֛ל · So Michal
    So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
  7. 1 Samuel 19:13מִיכַ֜ל · Then Michal
    Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
  8. 1 Samuel 19:17 (2×)מִיכַ֗ל · to Michal; מִיכַל֙ · Michal
    And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away, and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
  9. 1 Samuel 25:44מִיכַ֥ל · Michal
    But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
  10. 2 Samuel 3:13מִיכַ֣ל · Michal
    “Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
  11. 2 Samuel 3:14מִיכַ֔ל · Michal
    Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
  12. 2 Samuel 6:16וּמִיכַ֨ל · Michal
    As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
  13. 2 Samuel 6:20מִיכַ֤ל · Michal
    When David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”
  14. 2 Samuel 6:21מִיכַל֒ · Michal
    But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,
  15. 2 Samuel 6:23וּלְמִיכַל֙ · And Michal
    And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
  16. 2 Samuel 21:8מִיכַ֣ל · Merab
    But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
  17. 1 Chronicles 15:29וּמִיכַ֨ל · Michal
    As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.