Easton's Bible Dictionary

others think, a corrupt Greek intermingled with Syriac words. Paul preached in this region, and revisited it (Acts 16:1-6; 18:23 ...

they took him for Mercury, because he was the “chief speaker,” and his companion Barnabas for Jupiter, probably in consequence o ...

M MAACHAH oppression, a small Syrian kingdom near Geshur, east of the Hauran, the district of Batanea (Joshua 13:13; 2 Samuel 1 ...

(4.) One who was sent by king Josiah to repair the temple (2 Chronicles 34:8). He was governor (Hebrews sar, rendered elsewhere ...

MACCABEES, BOOKS OF THE There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of independe ...

revelry of the banquet held in the border fortress, to please Salome, who danced before him, he sent an executioner, who beheade ...

Isaac and Rebekah there is a circular opening in the floor into the cavern below, the cave of Machpelah. Here it may be that the ...

MADAI middle land, the third “son” of Japheth (Genesis 10:2), the name by which the Medes are known on the Assyrian monuments. ...

MAGIC The Jews seem early to have consulted the teraphim (q.v.) for oracular answers (Judges 18:5, 6; Zechariah 10:2). There is ...

authority. The strategoi were the duumviri, the two praetors appointed to preside over the administration of justice in the colo ...

into “two hosts” on his return from Padan-aram (Genesis 32:2). This name was afterwards given to the town which was built at tha ...

to a son that was to be born to him (Isaiah 8:1, 3), as denoting the sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the Assyrian army. ...

MALACHI messenger or angel, the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the last book of the Old Testament canon (Malachi ...

MALCAM (2 Samuel 12:30, Hebrews , R.V., “their king;” Jeremiah 49:1, 3, R.V.; Zephaniah 1:5), the national idol of the Ammonite ...

MALCHI-SHUA king of help, one of the four sons of Saul (1 Chronicles 8:33). He perished along with his father in the battle of ...

This “grove” must have been within sight of or “facing” Machpelah (q.v.). The site of Mamre has been identified with Ballatet Se ...

4:24), and as having dominion over all the inferior creatures (Genesis 1:28). He had in his original state God’s law written on ...

The whole “land of Gilead” having been conquered, the two and a half tribes left their wives and families in the fortified citie ...

ever reigned in Babylon), took Manasseh prisoner (B.C. 681) to Babylon. Such captive kings were usually treated with great cruel ...

MANDRAKES Hebrew dudaim; i.e., “love-plants”, occurs only in Genesis 30:14-16 and Cant. 7:13. Many interpretations have been gi ...