MEADOW
In (Genesis 41:2,18) meadow appears to be an Egyptian term meaning some kind of flag or waterplant, as its use in (Job 8:11) (Authorized Version "flag") seems to show.In (Judges...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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MEAH
(a hundred), The tower of, one of the towers of the wall of Jerusalem when rebuilt by Nehemiah, (Nehemiah 3:1; 12:39) appears to have been situated somewhere at the northeast pa...
MEALS
Our information on the subject of meals is but scanty. The early Hebrews do not seem to have given special names to their several meals, for the terms rendered "dine" and "dinne...
MEARAH
(a cave), a place named in (Joshua 13:4) only. The word means in Hebrew a cave, and it is commonly assumed that the reference is to some remarkable cavern in the neighborhood of...
MEASURES
[WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND MEASURES]
MEAT
It does not appear that the word "meat" is used in any one instance in the Authorized Version of either the Old or New Testament in the sense which it now almost exclusively bea...
MEAT OFFERING
The law or ceremonial of the meat offering is described in (Leviticus 2:1)... and Levi 6:14-23 It was to be composed of fine flour, seasoned with salt and mixed with oil and fra...
MEBUNNAI
(building of Jehovah). In this form appears, In one passage only --2Sam 23:27 --The name of one of David’s guard, who is elsewhere called SIBBECHAI, (2 Samuel 21:18; 1 Chronicle...
MECHERATHITE, THE
that is, the native or inhabitant of a place called Mecherah. (1 Chronicles 11:36) In the parallel list of (2 Samuel 23:1)... the name appears, with other variations, as "the Ma...
MEDAD
(love). [ELDAD AND MEDAD]
MEDAN
(contention), a son of Abraham and Keturah. (Genesis 23:5; 1 Chronicles 1:42)
MEDEBA
(water of rest), a town on the eastern side of Jordan, first alluded to in (Numbers 21:30) Here it seems to denote the limit of the territory of Heshbon. It next occurs in the e...
MEDES, MEDIA
(middle land). Media lay northwest of Persia proper, south and southwest of the Caspian Sea, east of Armenia and Assyria, west and northwest of the great salt desert of Iran. It...
MEDIAN, THE
Darius, "the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes," (Daniel 9:1) or "the Mede," ch. (Daniel 11:1) is thus denoted in (Daniel 5:31)
MEDICINE
Egypt was the earliest home of medical and other skill for the region of the Mediterranean basin, and every Egyptian mummy of the more expensive and elaborate sort involved a pr...
MEGIDDO
(place of crowns) was in a very marked position on the southern rim of the plain of Esdraelon, on the frontier line of the territories of the tribes of Issachar and Manasseh, 6 ...
MEHETABEL
(favored of God), the daughter of Matred, and wife of Hadad king of Edom. (Genesis 36:39)
MEHETABLEEL
(favored of God), another and less correct form of Mehetabel. The ancestor of Shemaiah the prophet who was hired against Nehemiah by Tobiah and Sanballat. (Nehemiah 6:10)
MEHIDA
(famous, noble), a family of Nethinim, the descendants of Mehida. returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:52; Nehemiah 7:54)
MEHIR
(price), the son of Chelub the brother of Shuah. (1 Chronicles 4:11)
MEHOLATHITE, THE
a word occurring once only-- (1 Samuel 18:19) It no doubt denotes that Adriel belonged to a place celled Meholah.
MEHUJAEL
(smitten by God), the son of Irad, and fourth in descent from Cain. (Genesis 4:18)
MEHUMAN
(faithful), one of the seven eunuchs of Ahasuerus. (Esther 1:10)
MEHUNIM
(habitations). (Ezra 2:50) Elsewhere called Mehunims and Meunim.
MEHUNIMS, THE
a people against whom King Uzziah waged a successful war. (2 Chronicles 26:7) The name is the plural of Maon [MAON]. Another notice of the Mehunims in the reign of Hezekiah (cir...
MEJARKON
(hunters of yellowness) a town in the territory of Dan. (Joshua 19:46) only in the neighborhood of Joppa or Japho.
MEKONAH
(foundation), one of the towns which were reinhabited after the captivity by the men of Judah. (Nehemiah 11:28)