MAACAH
(oppression).The mother of Absalom; also called MAACHAH. (2 Samuel 3:3)Maacah, or (in (1 Chronicles 19:6,7)) Maachah, a small kingdom in close proximity to Palestine which appea...
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MAACHAH
(oppression).The daughter of Nahor by his concubine Beumah. (Genesis 22:24)The father of Achish who was king of Gath at the beginning of Solomon’s reign. (1 Kings 2:39)The daugh...
MAACHATHI
(oppression) and Maach’athites, The, two words which denote the inhabitants of the small kingdom of Maachah. (3:14; Joshua 12:5; 13:11,13); (2 Samuel 23:34; 2 Kings 25:23; Jerem...
MAADAI, OR MAADAI
(ornament of Jehovah), one of the sons of Kani, who had married a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:34)
MAADIAH
one of the priests who returned with Zerubbabel, (Nehemiah 12:5) elsewhere (ver. (Nehemiah 12:17)) called MOADIAH.
MAAI
(compassionate), one of the Bene-Asaph who took part in the solemn musical service by which the wall of Jerusalem was dedicated. (Nehemiah 12:36)
MAALEHACRABBIM
(ascent of scorpions), the full form of the name given as AKRABBIM in (Joshua 15:3) [AKRABBIM]
MAASEIAH
(work of the Lord), the name of four persons who had married foreign wives. In the time of Ezra,A descendant of Jeshua the priest. (Ezra 10:18)A priest, of the sons of Harim. (E...
MAASIAI
(work of the Lord), a priest who after the return from Babylon dwelt in Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 9:12)
MAATH
(small), son of Mattathias in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. (Luke 3:26)
MAAZIAH
(consolation of Jehovah).One of the priests who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:8)A priest in the reign of David, head of the twenty-fourth course. (1 Chronicles...
MACAERUS
a castle of the Herods on the southern border of their Perean dominions, nine miles east of the northern end of the Dead Sea. Here John the Baptist was imprisoned, and here was ...
MACCABEES
(a hammer), The. This title, which was originally the surname of Judas, one of the sons of Mattathias, was afterward extended to the heroic family of which he was one of the nob...
MACCABEES, BOOKS OF
Four books which bear the common title of "Maccabees" are found in some MSS. of the LXX. Two of these were included in the early current Latin versions of the Bible, and thence ...
MACEDONIA
(extended land), a large and celebrated country lying north of Greece, the first part of Europe which received the gospel directly from St. Paul, and an important scene of his s...
MACHBANAI
(bond of the Lord), one of the lion-faced warriors of Gad, who joined the fortunes of David when living in retreat at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:13)
MACHBENAH
(bond). Sheva, the father of Machbena, is named in the genealogical list of Judah as the offspring of Manchah, the concubine of Caleb ben-Hezron. (1 Chronicles 2:49)
MACHI
(decrease), the father of Geuel the Gadite, who went with Caleb and Joshua to spy out the land of Canaan. (Numbers 13:15)
MACHIR
(sold).The eldest son, (Joshua 17:1) of the patriarch Manasseh by an Aramite or Syrian concubine. (1 Chronicles 7:14) At the time of the conquest the family of Machir had become...
MACHIRITES, THE
the descendants of Machir the father of Gilead. (Numbers 26:29)
MACHNADEBAI
(what is like the liberal?), one of the sons of Bani who put away his foreign wife at Ezra’s command. (Ezra 10:40)
MACHPELAH
(double, or a portion). [HEBRON]
MADAI
(middle land), (Genesis 10:2) is usually called the third son of Japhet, and the progenitor of the Medes; but probably all that is intended is that the Medes, as well as the Gom...
MADIAN
(Acts 7:29) [MIDIAN]
MADMANNAH
(dunghill), one of the towns in the south district of Judah. (Joshua 15:31) In the time of Eusebius and Jerome it was called Menois, and was not far from Gaza. The first stage s...
MADMEN
(dunghill), a place in Moab, threatened with destruction in the pronunciations of Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 48:2)
MADMENAH
(dunghill), one of the, Benjamite villages north of Jerusalem the inhabitants of which were frightened away by the approach of Sennacherib along the northern road. (Isaiah 10:31)