Limitless Word
מַקֵּלmaqqêl/mak-kale/
HebrewH473117 occurrences (KJV)

a shoot, i.e. stick (with leaves on, or for walking, striking, guiding, divining)

KJV renders it: rod, (hand-)staff.

Where it appears(showing the first 15 of 17)

  • Gen 30:37Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
  • Gen 30:38He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
  • Gen 30:39The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.
  • Gen 30:41Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in front of the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
  • Gen 32:10I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
  • Exod 12:11This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
  • Num 22:27The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
  • 1 Sam 17:40He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near to the Philistine.
  • 1 Sam 17:43The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
  • Jer 1:11Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
  • Jer 48:17All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, ‘How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!’
  • Hos 4:12My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
  • Zech 11:7So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
  • Zech 11:10I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
  • Zech 11:14Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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