Meshech; Mesech
me'-shek, me'-sek (meshekh, "long," "tall"; Mosoch): Son of Japheth (Ge 10:2;1Ch 1:5;1:17is a scribal error for "Mash"; compareGe 10:22,23). His descendants and their dwelling-p...
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Meshelemiah
me-shel-e-mi'-a (meshelemyah, "Yah repays"): Father of Zechariah, one of the porters of the tabernacle (1Ch 9:21;26:1,2,9). In the latter passage Meshelemiah, with a final "-u",...
Meshezabel
me-shez'-a-bel (meshezebhe'el, "God a deliverer"; the King James Version Meshezabeel, me-shez'-a-bel):(1) A priest, ancestor of Meshullam, who assisted Nehemiah in rebuilding th...
Meshillemith
me-shil'-e-mith (meshillemith, "retribution"): A priest, son of Immer, ancestor, according to1Ch 9:12, of Adaiah and Pashhur, and according toNe 11:13, of Amashai. In the latter...
Meshillemoth
me-shil'-e-moth, me-shil'-e-moth (meshillemoth, "recompense"):(1) An Ephraimite ancestor of Berechiah, chief of the tribe, in the reign of Pekah (2Ch 28:12).(2) The "Meshillemit...
Meshobab
me-sho'-bab (meshobhabh): A Simeonite (1Ch 4:34). This name heads the list of those who, for the sake of wider pasturelands, occupied a Hamitic settlement in the neighborhood of...
Meshullam
me-shul'-am (meshullam, "resigned" or "devoted"; compare Arabic Muslim; Mesollam): An Old Testament name very common in post-exilic times.(1) The grandfather of Shaphan (2Ki 22:...
Meshullemeth
me-shul'-e-meth (meshullemeth): The wife of King Manasseh and mother of Amon (2Ki 21:19). She is further designated "daughter of Haruz of Jotbah." This is the earliest instance ...
Mesobaite
me-so'-ba-it.SeeMEZOBAITE.
Mesopotamia
mes-o-ta'-mi-a.SeeSYRIA.
Mess
mes (mas'eth): Any dish of food sent (Latin missum; French messe) to the table. It occurs in the Old Testament inGe 43:34(twice);2Sa 11:8English Versions of the Bible, and in th...
Messenger
mes'-en-jer: The regular Hebrew word for "messenger" is mal'akh, the Greek aggelos. This may be a human messenger or a messenger of God, an angel. The context must decide the ri...
Messiah
me-si'-a (mashiach; Aramaic meshicha'; Septuagint Christos, "anointed"; New Testament "Christ"):1. Meaning and Use of the Term2. The Messianic HopeI. THE MESSIAH IN THE OLD TEST...
Metal
met'-al (chashmal; elektron; the King James Version amber;Eze 8:2, the Revised Version margin "amber"): The substance here intended is a matter of great uncertainty. In Egypt br...
Metal Working
See CRAFTS, 10; MINING.
Metallurgy
met'-al-ur-ji: There are numerous Biblical references which describe or allude to the various metallurgical operations. InJob 28:1occurs zaqaq, translated "refine," literally, "...
Metals
met'-alz (Latin metallum, "metal," "mine"; Greek metallon, "mine"): The metals known by the ancients were copper, gold, iron, lead, silver and tin. Of these copper, gold and sil...
Mete
met (madhadh): "To measure," either with a utensil of dry measure, as inEx 16:18, or to measure with a line or measure of length, as inPs 60:6;108:7;Isa 40:12. InIsa 18:2,7it is...
Meterus
me-te'-rus.SeeBAITERUS.
Meteyard
met'-yard (middah, "a measure,"Le 19:35): Has this meaning in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), but in the American Standard Revised Version...
Metheg-Ammah
me-theg-am'-a, meth-eg-am'-a (mathegh ha-'ammah, "bridle of the metropolis"; Septuagint ten aphorismenen): It is probable that the place-name Metheg-Ammah in2Sa 8:1the King Jame...
Methusael
me-thu'-sa-el.SeeMETHUSHAEL.
Methuselah
me-thu'-se-la, me-thu'-se-la (methushelach, "man of the javelin"): A descendant of Seth, the son of Enoch, and father of Lamech (Ge 5:21 ff;1Ch 1:3;Lu 3:37). Methuselah is said ...
Methushael
me-thu'-sha-el (methusha'el): A descendant of Cain, and father of Lamech in the Cainite genealogy (Ge 4:18). The meaning of the name is doubtful. Dillmann suggested "suppliant o...
Meunim
me-u'-nim (the King James Version Mehunim).SeeMAON.
Meuzal
me-u'-zal (me'uzal, or me'uzal): A word which occurs only in the King James Version margin ofEze 27:19. The rendering in the King James Version text is "going to and fro," in th...
Mezarim
mez'-a-rim (NORTH).See ASTRONOMY, sec. II, 13, (1).