companions were afterwards cast into the burning fiery furnace for
refusing to worship the idol the king had set up, from which they were
miraculously delivered (3:13-30). His Chaldean name was Meshach (q.v.).
- MISHAL a city of the tribe of Asher (Joshua 21:30; 1 Chronicles 6:74). It
is probably the modern Misalli, on the shore near Carmel. - MISHAM their cleansing or their beholding, a Benjamite, one of the sons
of Elpaal (1 Chronicles 8:12). - MISHEAL (Joshua 19:26), a town of Asher, probably the same as
Mishal. - MISHMA hearing. (1.) One of the sons of Ishmael (Genesis 25:14), and
founder of an Arab tribe.
(2.) A Simeonite (1 Chronicles 4:25, 26).
- MISHMANNAH fatness, one of the Gadite heroes who gathered to David
at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:10). - MISREPHOTH-MAIM burning of waters, supposed to be salt-pans, or
lime-kilns, or glass-factories, a place to which Joshua pursued a party of
Canaanites after the defeat of Jabin (Joshua 11:8). It is identified with the
ruin Musheirifeh, at the promontory of en-Nakhurah, some 11 miles north
of Acre. - MITE contraction of minute, from the Latin minutum, the translation of
the Greek word lepton, the very smallest bronze of copper coin (Luke
12:59; 21:2). Two mites made one quadrans, i.e., the fourth part of a
Roman as, which was in value nearly a halfpenny. (See FARTHING.) - MITHCAH sweetness, one of the stations of the Israelites in the
wilderness (Numbers 33:28, 29). - MITHREDATH given by Mithra, or dedicated to Mithra, i.e., the sun, the
Hebrew form of the Greek name Mithridates. (1.) The “treasurer” of King
Cyrus (Ezra 1:8).
(2.) Ezra 4:7, a Persian officer in Samaria.
- MITRE (Hebrews mitsnepheth), something rolled round the head; the
turban or head-dress of the high priest (Exodus 28:4, 37, 39; 29:6, etc.). In
the Authorized Version of Ezekiel 21:26, this Hebrew word is rendered