MIGDALGAD
(tower of Gad), a city of Judah, (Joshua 15:37) in the district of the Shefelah, or maritime lowland.
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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MIGDOL
(tower), the name of one of two places on the eastern frontier of Egypt.A Migdol is mentioned int he account of the exodus, (Exodus 14:2; Numbers 33:7,8) near the head of the Re...
MIGRON
(precipice), a town or a spot in the neighborhood of Gibeah. (1 Samuel 14:23) Migron is also mentioned in Sennacherib’s approach to Jerusalem. (Isaiah 10:28)
MIJAMIN
(from the right hand).The chief of the sixth of the twenty-four courses of priests established by David. (1 Chronicles 24:9)A family of priests who signed the covenant with Nehe...
MIKLOTH
(staves).One of the sons of Jehiel, the father or prince of Gibeon, by his wife Maachah. (1 Chronicles 8:32; 9:37,38)The leader of the second division of David’s army. (1 Chroni...
MIKNEIAH
(possession of Jehovah), one of the Levites of the second rank, gatekeepers of the ark, appointed by David to play in the temple band "with harps upon Sheminith." (1 Chronicles ...
MILALAI
(eloquent), probably a Gershonite Levite of the sons of Asaph, who assisted at the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 12:36)
MILCAH
(queen or counsel).Daughter of Haran and wife of her uncle Nahor, Abraham’s brother, to whom she bore eight children. (Genesis 11:29; 22:20,23; 24:15,24,47)The fourth daughter o...
MILCOM
(great king). [MOLECH]
MILE
a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards --4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of an English mile. It is only once noticed in the Bible, (Matthew 5:41) the usual metho...
MILETUS
(Acts 20:15,17) less correctly called MILETUM in (2 Timothy 4:20) It lay on the coast, 36 miles to the south of Ephesus, a day’s sail from Trogyllium. (Acts 20:15) Moreover, to ...
MILK
As an article of diet, milk holds a more important position in eastern countries than with us. It is not a mere adjunct in cookery, or restricted to the use of the young, althou...
MILL
The mills of the ancient Hebrews probably differed but little from those at present in use in the East. These consist of two circular stones, each about eighteen inches or two f...
MILLET
a kind of grain. A number os species are cultivated in the East. When green it is used as fodder, and for bread when ripe. (Ezekiel 4:9) It is probable that both the Sorghum vul...
MILLO
(a rampart, mound) a place in ancient Jerusalem. Both name and place seem to have been already in existence when the city was taken from the Jebusites by David. (2 Samuel 5:9; 1...
MILLO, THE HOUSE OF
Apparently a family or clan, mentioned in (Judges 9:6,20) only, in connection with the men or lords of Shechem.The spot at which King Joash was murdered by his slaves. (2 Kings ...
MINES, MINING
A highly-poetical description given by the author of the book of Job of the operations of mining as known in his day is the only record of the kind which we inherit from the anc...
MINIAMIN
(from the right hand).A Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:15)The same as Miamin 2 and Mijamin 2. (Nehemiah 12:17)One of the priests at the dedication of the wall...
MINISTER
This term is used in the Authorized Version to describe various officials of a religious and civil character. Its meaning, as distinguished from servant, is a voluntary attendan...
MINNI
(division), (Jeremiah 51:27) already noticed as a portion of Armenia. [ARMENIA]
MINNITH
(distribution), a place on the east of the Jordan, named as the point to which Jephthah’s slaughter of the Ammonites extended. (Judges 11:33) The "wheat of Minnith" is mentioned...
MINSTREL
The Hebrew word in (2 Kings 3:15) properly signifies a player upon a stringed instruments like the harp or kinnor [HARP], whatever its precise character may have been, on which ...
MINT
This name occurs only in (Matthew 23:23) and Luke 11:42 As one of those herbs the tithe of which the Jews were most scrupulously exact in paying. The horse mint, M. Sylvestris, ...
MIPHKAD
(appointed place), The gate, one of the gates of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:31) It was probably not in the wall of Jerusalem proper, but in that of the city of David, or Zion, and s...
MIRACLES
A miracle may be defined to be a plain and manifest exercise by a man, or by God at the call of a man, of those powers which belong only to the Creator and Lord of nature; and t...
MIRIAM
(rebellion), the sister of Moses, was the eldest of that sacred family; and she first appears, probably as a young girl, watching her infant brother’s cradle in the Nile, (Exodu...
MIRMA
(fraud), a Benjamite, born in the land of Moab. (1 Chronicles 8:10)