מקום

Cognate with Arabic مَقَام‎ (maqām), .

• (singular indefinite): (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /maˈkom/
• (singular construct): (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /meˈkom/

מָקוֹם • (makóm) m (plural indefinite מְקוֹמוֹת‎, singular construct מְקוֹם־) [pattern: מִקְטָל]

1. place (location or position)
   1. standing place, station, post, office
      • Genesis 19:27, with translation of Aryeh Kaplan:

        ‏וַיַּשְׁכֵּם אַבְרָהָם בַּבֹּקֶר אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר־עָמַד שָׁם אֶת־פְּנֵי יְהוָה׃‎‎

        Abraham woke up early in the morning, [hurrying back] to the place where he had stood before God.

      • a. 500 CE, Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 31b:

        ‏מורא לא עומד במקומו ולא יושב במקומו ולא סותר את דבריו‎

        Awe [of one's father] - do not stand at his standing-place, and do not sit at his sitting-place, and do not contradict his statements

   2. place, place of human abode
      • Genesis 29:22, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

        ‏וַיֶּאֱסֹף לָבָן אֶת־כָּל־אַנְשֵׁי הַמָּקוֹם וַיַּעַשׂ מִשְׁתֶּה׃‎‎

        And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

      • a. 217 CE, Mishnah, Megillah 2:3:

        ‏אִם עָתִיד לַחֲזֹר לִמְקוֹמוֹ, קוֹרֵא כִמְקוֹמוֹ.‎‎

        If he will return to his place, he reads as in his place.

   3. city, land, region
      • Genesis 18:24, with translation of Aryeh Kaplan:

        ‏וַאוּלַי יֵשׁ חֲמִשִּׁים צַדִּיקִם בְּתוֹךְ הָעִיר הַאַף תִּסְפֶּה וְלֹא־תִשָּׂא לַמָּקוֹם לְמַעַן חֲמִשִּׁים הַצַּדִּיקִם אֲשֶׁר בְּקִרְבָּהּ׃‎‎

        Suppose there are fifty innocent people in the city. Would You still destroy it, and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty good people inside it?

      • a. 217 CE, Mishnah, Avot 6:9:

        ‏אָמַר לִי, רַבִּי, מֵאֵיזֶה מָקוֹם אַתָּה. אָמַרְתִּי לוֹ, מֵעִיר גְּדוֹלָה שֶׁל חֲכָמִים וְשֶׁל סוֹפְרִים אָנִי.‎‎

        He said to me, "Rabbi, what place are you from?" I said to him, "From a great city of scholars and sages am I."

   4. place, locality, spot
      • Genesis 28:16, with translation of Aryeh Kaplan:

        ‏וַיִּיקַץ יַעֲקֹב מִשְּׁנָתוֹ וַיֹּאמֶר אָכֵן יֵשׁ יְהוָה בַּמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה וְאָנֹכִי לֹא יָדָעְתִּי׃‎‎

        Jacob awoke from his sleep. 'God is truly in this place,' he said, 'but I did not know it.'

      • a. 500 CE, Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzi'a 59b:

        ‏יצאתה בת קול ואמרה מה לכם אצל רבי אליעזר שהלכה כמותו בכל מקום‎‎

        And a divine voice came down and said, "What do you have against Rabbi Eliezer, as the halakhah is according to him in every place?"

   5. space, room, distance
      • Genesis 24:23, with translation of Aryeh Kaplan:

        ‏וַיֹּאמֶר בַּת־מִי אַתְּ הַגִּידִי נָא לִי הֲיֵשׁ בֵּית־אָבִיךְ מָקוֹם לָנוּ לָלִין׃‎‎

        'Whose daughter are you?' he asked. 'If you would, tell me if there is a place in your father's house for us to spend the night.'

      • a. 500 CE, Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 10b:

        ‏וא"ר לוי דבר זה מסורת בידינו מאבותינו מקום ארון אינו מן המדה‎

        And Rabbi Levi said, "This matter is a tradition in our hands from our ancestors - the space taken by the ark is not in that measurement."

   6. region, quarter, direction
      • Genesis 12:6, with translation of Aryeh Kaplan:

        ‏וַיַּעֲבֹר אַבְרָם בָּאָרֶץ עַד מְקוֹם שְׁכֶם עַד אֵלוֹן מוֹרֶה וְהַכְּנַעֲנִי אָז בָּאָרֶץ׃‎‎

        Abram traveled through the land as far as the area of Shechem, coming to the Plain of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.

      • a. 217 CE, Mishnah, Berachot 4:4:

        ‏רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר, הַמְהַלֵּךְ בִּמְקוֹם סַכָּנָה, מִתְפַּלֵּל תְּפִלָּה קְצָרָה.‎‎

        Rabbi Yehoshua says, "A traveler in a region of danger prays a shortened prayer."

   • Proverbs 15:3, with translation of the King James Version:

     ‏בְּכָל מָקוֹם עֵינֵי ה׳ צֹפוֹת רָעִים וְטוֹבִים׃‎‎

     The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

2. place, stead, lieu
3. (euphemistic) the Omnipresent, God
   • Haggadah:

     ‏מִתְּחִלָּה עוֹבְדֵי עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה הָיוּ אֲבוֹתֵינוּ וְעַכְשָׁיו קֵרְבָנוּ הַמָּקוֹם לַעֲבֹדָתוֹ‎

     In the beginning, our forefathers were worshipers of paganism, and now the Omnipresent has brought us close to his service.

• H4725 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

From Hebrew מָקוֹם‎ (makóm).

מקום • (mokem) m, plural מקומות‎ (mekoymes)

1. place, locale
2. safe haven