- MATTHIAS gift of God. Acts 1:23.
- MATTITHIAH gift of Jehovah. (1.) One of the sons of Jeduthun (1
Chronicles 25:3, 21).
(2.) The eldest son of Shallum, of the family of Korah (1 Chronicles 9:31).
(3.) One who stood by Ezra while reading the law (Nehemiah 8:4).
(4.) The son of Amos, and father of Joseph, in the genealogy of our Lord
(Luke 3:25).
- MATTOCK (1.) Hebrews ma’eder, an instrument for dressing or pruning
a vineyard (Isaiah 7:25); a weeding-hoe.
(2.) Hebrews mahareshah (1 Samuel 13:1), perhaps the ploughshare or
coulter.
(3.) Hebrews herebh, marg. of text (2 Chronicles 34:6). Authorized
Version, “with their mattocks,” marg. “mauls.” The Revised Version
renders “in their ruins,” marg. “with their axes.” The Hebrew text is
probably corrupt.
- MAUL an old name for a mallet, the rendering of the Hebrew mephits
(Proverbs 25:18), properly a war-club. - MAZZAROTH prognostications, found only Job 38:32, probably
meaning “the twelve signs” (of the zodiac), as in the margin (comp. 2
Kings 23:5). - MEADOW (1.) Hebrews ha’ahu (Genesis 41:2, 18), probably an
Egyptain word transferred to the Hebrew; some kind of reed or
water-plant. In the Revised Version it is rendered “reed-grass”, i.e., the
sedge or rank grass by the river side.
(2.) Hebrews ma’areh (Judges 20:33), pl., “meadows of Gibeah” (R.V.,
after the LXX., “Maareh-geba”). Some have adopted the rendering “after
Gibeah had been left open.” The Vulgate translates the word “from the
west.”
- MEAH an hundred, a tower in Jersalem on the east wall (Nehemiah 3:1) in
the time of Nehemiah. - MEALS are at the present day “eaten from a round table little higher than
a stool, guests sitting cross-legged on mats or small carpets in a circle, and