Strong's #4287: Machath (pronounced makh'-ath)

probably from 4229; erasure; Machath, the name of two Israelites:--Mahath.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

machath

Mahath = "grasping"

1) a Kohathite Levite of the house of Korah

2) a Kohathite Levite in the reign of king Hezekiah

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: probably from H4229

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

1 Chronicles 6:35: "the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,"
2 Chronicles 29:12: "Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah,"
2 Chronicles 31:13: "and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand"