MICAH mī’ ka (מִיכָ֥ה, מִיכָ֥א, contractions of מִיכָיָ֑הוּ, who is like Yahu/Yahweh, LXX^A Μιυά, LXX^B Μιχαίας). 1. An Ephraimite (Judg 17, 18) who stole 1100 pieces of silver from his mother. She pronounced a curse on him, but relented and used 200 pieces of the silver to make a graven and molten image for a shrine. This shrine also contained an ephod and teraphim. One of his sons was made priest of this shrine. He, however, was replaced by Jonathan, a grandson of Moses, a Levite of Bethlehem-Judah who served as a hireling priest. When five Danites in search of a new home for their tribe obtained a favorable oracle from him, they returned with 600 armed men and offered Jonathan employment as priest in their new tribal territory about Laish (Dan). They took with them Micah’s ephod, teraphim and the graven image. Micah was helpless to prevent this action. He pursued after them, but was warned that interference would cost him his goods and his life. His graven image became a shrine in the city of Dan.

2. A descendant of Reuben who was ancestor of an exile carried away by Tiglath-pileser (1 Chron 5:5).

3. A son of Mephibosheth (Meriba’al) (1 Chron 8:34, 35; 9:40, 41) called Mica (KJV Meicha) in 2 Samuel 9:12.

4. Son of Zichri (1 Chron 9:15), also called son of Zabdi in Nehemiah 11:17. In Nehemiah 12:35 he is called Micaiah, son of Zakkur.

5. A Levite during the latter part of David’s reign (1 Chron 23:20; 24:24, 25).

6. A signer of Ezra’s covenant (Neh 10:11).

7. The father of Abdon, one of Josiah’s messengers to Huldah (2 Chron 34:20), also called Micaiah (2 Kings 22:12).

8. Micah, the prophet, see following article. See also Micaiah.

Bibliography J. W. Myers, Judges (IB, II) (1953), 799-807.