Strong's #4268: machaceh (pronounced makh-as-eh')
or machceh {makh-seh'}; from 2620; a shelter (literally or figuratively):--hope, (place of) refuge, shelter, trust.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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machăseh / machseh
1) refuge, shelter
1a) from rain or storm, from danger
1b) of falsehood
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H2620
Usage:
This word is used 20 times:
Job 24:8: "of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter."
Psalms 14:6: "of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge."
Psalms 46:1: "upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help"
Psalms 61:3: "For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy."
Psalms 62:7: "and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God."
Psalms 62:8: "your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah."
Psalms 71:7: "unto many; but thou art my strong refuge."
Psalms 73:28: "for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all"
Psalms 91:2: "I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust."
Psalms 91:9: "thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;"
Psalms 94:22: "my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge."
Psalms 104:18: "The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies."
Psalms 142:5: "thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living."
Proverbs 14:26: "confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge."
Isaiah 4:6: "for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm"
Isaiah 25:4: "a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat,"
Isaiah 28:15: "unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:"
Isaiah 28:17: "to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place."
Jeremiah 17:17: "not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil."
Joel 3:16: "from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength"
