Melech
me'-lek (melekh, "king"): Great-grandson of Jonathan, son of Saul, grandson of Mephibosheth or Meribbaal (1Ch 8:35;9:41).
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Melicu
mel'-i-ku (melikhu, also melukhi, "regnant"): Same asMALLUCHI(which see).
Melita
mel'-i-ta (Melite,Ac 28:1): Is now generally identified with Malta. The former error in attributing the reference to the island of Meleda on the East coast of the Adriatic Sea w...
Melody
mel'-o-di: zimrah, a musical piece or song to be accompanied by an instrument (Isa 51:3); an instrument of praise (Am 5:23); naghan, "to play on a stringed instrument," "Make sw...
Melons
mel'-unz (`abhattichim; compare Arabic battikh, the "water melon"; pepones): InNu 11:5, the melon is referred to as common in Egypt, and there can be no doubt that the variety i...
Melzar
mel'-zar (ha-meltsar; Septuagint Abiesdri, Theod. Hamelsad): Possibly a transliteration of the Babylonian Ameluucur, the officer to whom was entrusted the bringing-up of Daniel ...
Mem
mam, mem "m": The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, transliterated in this Encyclopedia as "m". It came also to be used for the number 40.See ALPHABET, for name, etc.
Member
mem'-ber(1) yatsur; melos;(2) shaphekhah, "membrum virile" (De 23:1)):The first Hebrew word is derived from a root meaning "to knead," "to mold in clay," "to create." It therefo...
Memeroth
mem'-e-roth (Codex Alexandrinus, Mareroth; Codex Vaticanus here omits Memeroth and two other names; the King James Version Meremoth): A name in the genealogy of Ezra (1 Esdras 8...
Memmius, Quintus
mem'-i-us, kwin'-tus (Kointos Memmios): One of the 2 Roman legates who bore a letter to the Jews after their victory over Lysias 163 BC (2 Macc 11:34). No Quintus Memmius is oth...
Memorial; Memory
me-mo'-ri-al, mem'-o-ri ('azkarah, zekher, zekher, zikkaron; mnemosunon): "Memorial" as the translation of 'azkdrah is a sacrificial term, that which brings the offerer into rem...
Memphis
mem'-fis:1. Name:The ancient capital of Egypt, 12 miles South of the modern Cairo. This Greek and Roman form of the name was derived from the Coptic form Menfi (now Arabic Menf)...
Memucan
me-mu'-kan (memukhan; derivation unknown but probably of Persian origin (Es 1:14,16,21)): One of "the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first i...
Menahem
men'-a-hem (menachem, "one who comforts"; Manaem;2Ki 15:14-22):1. Accession and Reign:Son of Gadi and 16th king of Israel. He reigned 10 years. Menahem was probably the officer ...
Menan
me'-nan.SeeMENNA.
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
me'-ne, me'-ne, te'-kel, u-far'-sin, men'-a, men'a, tek'-el, oo-far'-sin (mene' ~mene' ~teqel ~upharcin; Theodotion, Mane, thekel, phares): These are the words that, according t...
Menelaus
men-e-la'-us (Menelaos): According to the less likely account of Josephus (Ant., XII, v, 1; XV, iii, 1; XX, x, 3), Menelaus was a brother of Jason and Onias III, and his name wa...
Menestheus
me-nes'-thus, me-nes'-the-us (Menestheus Codex Alexandrinus, Menestheseos): The father of Apollonius, a general of Epiphanes (2 Macc 4:21 and in 2 Macc 4:4 the Revised Version (...
Meni
me'-ni: Destiny, a god of Good Luck, possibly the Pleiades (Isa 65:11margin).See ASTROLOGY, 10; GAD.
Menna
men'-a (Menna Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek, Tregelles, Tischendorf; Mainan Textus Receptus of the New Testament; the King James Version Menan): An ancestor of J...
Menuhah
men-u'-ha, men-u'-ka (menuchah, "place of rest"; the King James Version Menuchah): Rendered inJud 20:43the King James Version "with ease," the Revised Version (British and Ameri...
Menuhoth
men-u'-hoth (menuchoth, "dwellings"; the King James Version manachti Manahethites): The first form is the Revised Version (British and American) transliterated in the name; the ...
Meonenim, Oak Of
me-on'-e-nim, me-o'-ne-nim: ('elon me`onenim; Codex Vaticanus, Elonmaonemein, Codex Alexandrinus, druos apobleponton; the King James Version Plain of): This was a sacred tree wh...
Meonothai
me-on'-o-thi, me-o'-no-thi, me-o-no'-thi (me`onothai, "my dwellings"): A son of Othniel, nephew of Caleb (1Ch 4:14). Possibly, as the King James Version margin suggests, and the...
Mephaath
mef'-a-ath, me-fa'-ath (mepha`ath and meypha`ath, mopha`ath; Codex Vaticanus, Maiphaath, Mephaath): A city of the Amorites in the territory allotted to Reuben, named with Kedemo...
Mephibosheth
me-fib'-o-sheth (mephibhosheth, "idol-breaker," also MERIB-BAAL(which see); Memphibosthe):(1) Son of Saul by his concubineRIZPAH(which see), daughter of Aiah (2Sa 21:8).See also...
Merab
me'-rab (merabh "increase"; Merob): The elder daughter of Saul (1Sa 14:49), promised, though not by name, to the man who should slay the Philistine Goliath (1Sa 17:25). David di...