MIRROR
(Exodus 38:8; Job 37:18) The Hebrew women on coming out of Egypt probably brought with them mirrors like those which were used by the Egyptians, and were made of a mixed metal, ...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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MISGAB
(height), a place in Moab. (Jeremiah 48:1) It appears to be mentioned also in (Isaiah 25:12) thorough there rendered in the Authorized Version "high fort."
MISHAEL
(who is what God is?).One of the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron and Moses. (Exodus 6:22) when Nadab and Abihu were struck dead for offering strange fire, Mishael and his bro...
MISHAL, OR MISHEAL
(entreaty), one of the towns in the territory of Asher, (Joshua 19:26) allotted to the Gershonite Levites. ch. (Joshua 21:30)
MISHAM
(purification), a Benjamite, son of Elpaal and descendant of Shaharaim. (1 Chronicles 8:12)
MISHMA
(a hearing).A son of Ishmael and brother of Mibsam. (Genesis 25:14; 1 Chronicles 1:30)A son of Simeon, (1 Chronicles 4:25) brother of Mibsam.
MISHMANNAH
(fatness), the fourth of the twelve lion-faced Gadites who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:10)
MISHRAITES, THE
the fourth of the four "families of Kirjath-jearim," i.e. colonies proceeding therefrom and founding towns. (1 Chronicles 2:53)
MISPERETH
one of those who returned with Zerubbabel and Jeshua from Babylon. (Nehemiah 7:7)
MISREPHOTHMAIM
(the flew of waters), a place in northern Palestine. Dr. Thomson treats Misrephoth-maim as identical with a collection of springs called Ain-Musheirifeh, on the seashore close u...
MITE
a coin current in Palestine in the time of our Lord. (Mark 12:41-44; Luke 21:1-4) It seems in Palestine to have been the smallest piece of money (worth about one-fifth of a cent...
MITHCAH
(sweetness), the name of an unknown desert encampment of the Israelites. (Numbers 33:28,29)
MITHNITE, THE
the designation of Joshaphat, one of David’s guard in the catalogue of (1 Chronicles 11:43)
MITHREDATH
(given by Mithra).The treasurer of Cyrus king of Persia, to whom the king gave the vessels of the temple. (Ezra 1:8)A Persian officer stationed at Samaria. (Ezra 4:7)
MITRE
(something rolled around the head), the turban or headdress of the high priest, made of fine linen cloth, eight yards long, folded around the head. On the front was a gold plate...
MITYLENE
(mutilated), the chief town of Lesbos, an island of the AEgean Sea, 7 1/2 miles from the opposite point of Asia Minor. The city is situated on the east coast of the island. Mity...
MIXED MULTITUDE
When the Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, the first stage of the exodus from Egypt, there were up with them "a mixed multitude." (Exodus 12:38; Numbers 11:4) They w...
MIZAR
(small), The hill, a mountain apparently in the northern part of transjordanic Palestine, from which the author of Psalm 42 utters his pathetic appeal. ver. 6. (It is probably a...
MIZPAH
and Miz’peh (a watch-tower), the name of several places in Palestine.The earliest of all, in order of the narrative, is the heap of stones piled up by Jacob and Laban, (Genesis ...
MIZPAR
(number); properly Mispar, the same as MISPERETH. (Ezra 2:2)
MIZPEH
[MIZPAH]
MIZRAIM, OR MIZRAIM
(the two Egypts; red soil), the usual name of Egypt in the Old Testament the dual of Mazor, which is less frequently employed. Mizraim first occurs in the account of the Hamites...
MIZZAH
(fear), son of Reuel and grandson of Esau. (Genesis 36:13,17; 1 Chronicles 1:37)
MNASON
(remembering) is honorably mentioned in Scripture. (Acts 21:16) It is most likely that his residence at this time was not Caesarea, but Jerusalem. He was a Cyprian by birth, and...
MOAB
(of his father), Mo’abites. Moab was the son of the Lot’s eldest daughter, the progenitor of the Moabites. Zoar was the cradle of the race of Lot. From this centre the brother t...
MOABITE STONE, THE
In the year 1868 Rev. F. Klein, of the Church Missionary Society at Jerusalem, found at Dhiban (the biblical Dibon), in Moab, a remarkable stone, since called the Moabite Stone....
MOADIAH
(Nehemiah 12:17) Elsewhere Nehe 12:5 Called MAADIAH.