מִיכַל

mi.khal

Hebrew H4324 Personal name, feminine 18 occurrences in 17 verses

מִיכַל Michal

A woman of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.14.49;

daughter of: Saul (H7586G) and Ahinoam (H0293); married to David (H1732) and Palti (H6406H);

sister of: Jonathan (H3083H), Abinadab (H0041H), Malchi-shua (H4444) and Merab (H4764);

half-brother of: Ish-bosheth (H0378), Armoni (H0764) and Mephibosheth (H4648H)

§ Michal = "who is like God"

daughter of king Saul, sister of Jonathan, wife of king David, and mother of five; given to David as wife for the bride price of 100 Philistine foreskins; while still married to David, her father gave her in marriage to another, Phaltiel; at the death of Saul, David forced her to return

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Concordance 17 verses

1 Samuel 14:49 מִיכַֽל׃

Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. His two daughters were named Merab (his firstborn) and Michal (his younger daughter).
1 Samuel 18:20 מִיכַ֥ל

Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
1 Samuel 18:27 מִיכַ֥ל

David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
1 Samuel 18:28 וּמִיכַ֥ל

When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
1 Samuel 19:11 מִיכַ֤ל

Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
1 Samuel 19:12 מִיכַ֛ל

So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
1 Samuel 19:13 מִיכַ֜ל

Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
1 Samuel 19:17 מִיכַ֗למִיכַל֙

And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
1 Samuel 25:44 מִיכַ֥ל

But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
2 Samuel 3:13 מִיכַ֣ל

“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
2 Samuel 3:14 מִיכַ֔ל

Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
2 Samuel 6:16 וּמִיכַ֨ל

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
2 Samuel 6:20 מִיכַ֤ל

As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”
2 Samuel 6:21 מִיכַל֒

But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,
2 Samuel 6:23 וּלְמִיכַל֙

And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
2 Samuel 21:8 מִיכַ֣ל

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
1 Chronicles 15:29 וּמִיכַ֨ל

As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.