Limitless Word
מַחֲסֶהmachăçeh/makh-as-eh'/
HebrewH426820 occurrences (KJV)

a shelter (literally or figuratively)

KJV renders it: hope, (place of) refuge, shelter, trust.

Where it appears

  • Job 24:8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
  • Ps 14:6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
  • Ps 46:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
  • Ps 61:3For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.
  • Ps 62:7With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
  • Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • Ps 71:7I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
  • Ps 73:28But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
  • Ps 91:2I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
  • Ps 91:9Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
  • Ps 94:22But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
  • Ps 104:18The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
  • Ps 142:5I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
  • Prov 14:26In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
  • Isa 4:6There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
  • Isa 25:4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
  • Isa 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
  • Isa 28:17I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
  • Jer 17:17Don’t be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
  • Joel 3:16Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.