authority. The strategoi were the duumviri, the two praetors appointed to
preside over the administration of justice in the colonies of the Romans.
They were attended by the sergeants (properly lictors or “rod bearers”).
- MAGOG region of Gog, the second of the “sons” of Japheth (Genesis
10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation,
probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. They are
described as skilled horsemen, and expert in the use of the bow. The Latin
father Jerome says that this word denotes “Scythian nations, fierce and
innumerable, who live beyond the Caucasus and the Lake Maeotis, and
near the Caspian Sea, and spread out even onward to India.” Perhaps the
name “represents the Assyrian Mat Gugi, or ‘country of Gugu,’ the
Gyges of the Greeks” (Sayce’s Races, etc.). - MAGOR-MISSABIB fear on every side, (Jeremiah 20:3), a symbolical
name given to the priest Pashur, expressive of the fate announced by the
prophet as about to come upon him. Pashur was to be carried to Babylon,
and there die. - MAHALALEEL praise of God. (1.) The son of Cainan, of the line of Seth
(Genesis 5:12-17); called Maleleel (Luke 3:37).
(2.) Nehemiah 11:4, a descendant of Perez.
- MAHALATH a lute; lyre. (1.) The daughter of Ishmael, and third wife of
Esau (Genesis 28:9); called also Bashemath (Genesis 36:3).
(2.) The daughter of Jerimoth, who was one of David’s sons. She was one
of Rehoboam’s wives (2 Chronicles 11:18).
- MAHALATH LEANNOTH MASCHIL This word leannoth seems to
point to some kind of instrument unknown (Psalm 88, title). The whole
phrase has by others been rendered, “On the sickness of affliction: a
lesson;” or, “Concerning afflictive sickness: a didactic psalm.” - MAHALATH MASCHIL in the title of Psalm 53, denoting that this was
a didactic psalm, to be sung to the accompaniment of the lute or guitar.
Others regard this word “mahalath” as the name simply of an old air to
which the psalm was to be sung. Others, again, take the word as meaning
“sickness,” and regard it as alluding to the contents of the psalm. - MAHANAIM two camps, a place near the Jabbok, beyond Jordan, where
Jacob was met by the “angels of God,” and where he divided his retinue