A name from Scripture
Maacah
MAY-uh-kuh
Meaning
Oppression; Depression; Pressed down
Hebrew origin · Unisex · First in 2 Samuel
What it points to
Maacah's story — removed from power by her own grandson for idolatry — teaches that no family relationship should protect what dishonors God. Asa's courage to confront even his grandmother models radical faithfulness.
Verses · King James Version
“And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.”
1 Kings 15:13
“And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah.”
2 Samuel 3:3