International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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Media

me'-di-a (madhay; Achaem. Persian Mada; Media): Lay to the West and Southwest of the Caspian, and extended thence to the Zagrus Mountains on the West On the North in later times...

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Median

me'-di-an.SeeDARIUS;MEDES;MEDIA.

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Mediation; Mediator

me-di-a'-shun, me'-di-a-ter:I. INTRODUCTORY1. The Terms(1) Mediation(2) Mediator2. The Principle of MediationII. MEDIATION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT1. Negative Teaching in the Old Te...

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Medicine

med'-i-sin, med'-i-s'-n (gehah, teruphah, rephu'ah): These words are used in the sense of a remedy or remedies for disease. InPr 17:22the King James Version, a merry heart is sa...

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Meditation

med-i-ta'-shun (haghuth, sichah): "Meditation" is the translation of haghuth, from haghah, "to murmur," "to have a deep tone," hence, "to meditate" (Ps 49:3); of haghigh, "sighi...

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Mediterranean Sea

med-i-te-ra'-ne-an (he thalassa): To the Hebrews the Mediterranean was the sea, as was natural from their situation.Hence, they speak of it simply as "the sea" (ha-yam), e.g.Ge ...

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Meeda

me-e'-da.SeeMEEDDA.

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Meedda

me-ed'-a (Meedda, but Swete, Dedda, following Codex Vaticanus; the King James Version Meeda): The head of one of the families of Nethinim (temple slaves) who went up with Zerubb...

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Meekness

mek'-nes (`anawah; praotes, prautes): "Meekness" in the Old Testament (`anawah, `anwah) is from `anaw, "suffering," "oppressed," "afflicted," denoting the spirit produced under ...

280

Meet

met, adjective (yashar; axios): Various words are employed to express meetness, the sense of what is proper, worthy, or fit. We have yashar, "straight," "upright," "right" (2Ki ...

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Megiddo; Megiddon

me-gid'-o, me-gid'-on (meghiddo, meghiddon; Magiddo, Mageddon, Magdo): A royal city of the Canaanites, the king of which was slain by Joshua (Jos 12:21). It lay within the terri...

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Mehetabel; Mehetabeel

me-het'-a-bel, me-het'-a-bel (mehetah'el, "whom God makes happy"):(1) Daughter of Matred, wife of Hadad or Hadar, the 8th and apparently last of the kings of Edom (Ge 36:39;1Ch ...

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Mehida

me-hi'-da (mechidha', "renowned"; "Meeda" (1 Esdras 5:32)): Ancestor and patronymic of a family of Nethinim who came back from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezr 2:52;Ne 7:54).

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Mehir

me'-her (mechir, "price," "hire"): A descendant of Judah, son of Chelub, nephew of Shuah (1Ch 4:11). Perug, a Chaldee name of equivalent meaning, is given for this person in the...

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Meholathite

me-ho'-la-thit (mecholathi): The Gentiledesignation of Adriel, the son of Barzillai, who married Merab, the daughter of King Saul (1Sa 18:19;2Sa 21:8), the name Michal in2Sa 21:...

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Mehujael

me-hu'-ja-el (mechuya'el, mechiya'el, "smitten of God"): A descendant of Cain through Enoch and Irad (Ge 4:18). The list inGe 5:12ff is a working-over of the same material of ge...

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Mehuman

me-hu'-man (me`human (Es 1:10)): A eunuch of Ahasuerus, the first of the seven chamberlains.

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Mehunim

me-hu'-nim (me`unim).SeeMEUNIM.

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Mekonah

me-ko'-na (mekhonah).SeeMECONAH.

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Melatiah

mel-a-ti'-a (melatyah, "Yah's deliverance"): A Gibeonite who assisted in building the wall of Jerusalem under Nehemiah (Ne 3:7).

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Melchi

mel'-ki (Tischendorf, Tregelles, Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek, Melchei; Textus Receptus of the New Testament, Melchi): The name of two ancestors of Jesus accord...

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Melchiah

mel-ki'-a (malkhiyah, "Yah's king"): A priest and father of Pashur (Jer 21:1the King James Version); elsewhere and in the Revised Version (British and American) called MALCHIAH ...

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Melchias

mel-ki-as (Codex Vaticanus, Melcheias, Codex Vaticanus (b), Codex Alexandrinus, Melchias): Name of three men who had taken "strange wives":(1) 1 Esdras 9:26 = "Malchijah" (Ezr 1...

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Melchiel

mel'-ki-el (Melchiel, Codex Vaticanus, Melcheiel): The father of Charmis, one of the governors of Bethulia (Judith 6:15). Other readings are Sellem and Mochisel.

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Melchishua

mel-ki-shoo'-a (malkishua`, "king's help").See MALCHI-SHUA.

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Melchizedek; Melchisedec

mel-kiz'e-dek, and (the King James Version in the book of Hebrews) (malki-tsedheq, "Tsedheq, or Tsidhiq is my king" (Ge 14:18 ff;Ps 110:4); Melchisedek (Heb 5:6,10;6:20;7:1,10,1...

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Melea

me'-le-a, mel'-e-a (Melea): An ancestor of Jesus in Luke's genealogy (Lu 3:31).