Maacah Or Maachah
1. A city and region of Syria or Aram, 1Ch 19:6; somewhere near the foot of mount Hermon, and Geshur. The portion of Manesseh beyond Jordan reached to this country, like that of...
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Macedonia
A large country lying north of Greece proper, bounded south by Thessaly and Epirus, east by Thrace and the Aegean sea, west by the Adriatic Sea and Illyria, and north by Dardani...
Machir
1. A son of Manasseh, Ge 50:23. His posterity were active in the conquest of Gilead, Nu 32:39; Jos 17:1; and in the war with Jabin and Sisera, Jud 5:14.2. A friend of Mephibosbe...
Macpelah
The field and cave purchased by Abraham for a family tomb. Sarah was first buried there, Ge 23:1-20; and afterwards Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, with Rebekah, Leah, etc., Ge 49:30 50:...
Madai
The third son of Japheth, ancestor of the Medes, etc., Ge 10:2.
Madmannah
A city near Gaza, first assigned to Judah, and afterwards to Simeon, Jos 15:311Ch 2:49.
Madmen
An unknown place in Moab, Jer 48:2.
Madmenah
A town not far from Jerusalem, site not known, Isa 10:31.
Magdala
The ancient Migdal-el in the border of Naphtali, Jos 19:38; now a small Turkish village called Medjel. It lay near the shore of the Sea of Galilee, at its most westerly point, t...
Magi Or Wise Men
An appellation given among the Medes and Persians to a class of priests, wise men, philosophers, etc., who devoted themselves to the study of the moral and physical sciences, an...
Magic
In the Bible, all the superstitious ceremonies of magicians, sorcerers, enchanters, necromancers, spiritualists, exorcists, astrologers, soothsayers, interpreters of dreams, for...
Magog
SeeGOG.
Mahalath
In the title of Ps 53:1; 88:1, is conjectured to refer to the tune or the instrument used in chanting these Psalms; or a Gengstenberg and Alexander suggest, the spiritual malady...
Mahanaim
Two hosts, a place so named because a host of angels here met the host of Jacob, on his return from Padan-aram, Ge 32:1-2. It lay north of the Jabbok and near Penuel, and afterw...
Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz
Haste, spoil, speed to the prey, the name given by Isaiah to one of his sons, for a prophetic intimation of the speedy victory of the Assyrians over Syria and Israel, Isa 8:1-3.
Mahlon
A son of Elimelech and Naomi, and the first husband of Ruth the Moabites, Ru 1:1-22.
Makkedah
A chief city of the Canaanites, near which five confederate kings were defeated, taken in the cave to which they had fled, and executed. It lay in the vicinity of Libnah, Azekah...
Maktesh
Zep 1:11, apparently in or near Jerusalem, and occupied by merchants; but we have no clue to its location.
Malachi
The last of the minor prophets, and of all the Old Testament writers; so little known, that it is doubted by some, though without sufficient reason, whether his name be a proper...
Malchus
The servant whose right ear was cut off by Peter and miraculously restored by Christ, in Gethsemane, Mt 26:51. The seizure of the Savior immediately after two manifestations of ...
Mallows
Job 30:4, supposed by Bochart to signify the plant called Orach, the Atriplex Halimus of Linnaeus. It somewhat resembles lettuce, and its young leaves are used in the East, eith...
Mammon
A Chaldee word signifying riches. Our Savior says we cannot serve God and Mammon, Mt 6:24. Wealth is as truly an idol to those who set their hearts on it, as Jupiter or Diana; a...
Mamre
An Amorite prince, brother of Eshcol and Aner. All three united their forces to aid Abraham in the rescue of Lot, Ge 14:1-24. He gave his name to the town where he dwelt, afterw...
Man Of Sin
SeeANTICHRIST.
Manaen
A foster-brother of Herod Antipas, but unlike him in character and end: Manaen was a minister of Christ at Antioch; Herod was guilty of the blood of both Christ and his forerunn...
Manasseh
1. The eldest son of Joseph, born in Egypt. His descendants constituted a full tribe. This was divided in the promised land: one part having settled east of the Jordan, in the c...
Mandrakes
Hebrew Dudaim, Ge 30:14-16So 7:13, a plant to which was attributed, probably without reason, the power of rendering barren women fruitful. According to most of the ancient versi...