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Micah Who is like the LORD

Micah is a Hebrew name meaning who is like the lord, said mee-kaw'. The prophet who asked what the LORD requires: to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.

Meaning: Who is like the LORDOrigin: HebrewSaid: mee-kaw'Strong's: H4318In the KJV: 29 verses

Where the name comes from

מִיכָה Mîykâh — Micah, the name of seven Israelites. Strong's H4318 derives it: an abbreviated form of H4320 (מִיכָיָה).

Micah in Scripture

The name appears in 29 verses, first at Judges 17:1.

Judges 17:1 · KJV

And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Judges 17:4 · KJV

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

Judges 17:5 · KJV

And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 17:8 · KJV

And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

Judges 17:9 · KJV

And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

Judges 17:10 · KJV

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

Judges 17:12 · KJV

And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Judges 17:13 · KJV

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

Judges 18:2 · KJV

And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

Judges 18:3 · KJV

When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

Judges 18:4 · KJV

And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

Judges 18:13 · KJV

And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

and 17 more.

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