- MIZPAR number, one of the Jews who accompanied Zerubbabel from
Babylon (Ezra 2:2); called also Mispereth (Nehemiah 7:7). - MIZRAIM the dual form of matzor, meaning a “mound” or “fortress,” the
name of a people descended from Ham (Genesis 10:6, 13; 1 Chronicles 1:8,
11). It was the name generally given by the Hebrews to the land of Egypt
(q.v.), and may denote the two Egypts, the Upper and the Lower. The
modern Arabic name for Egypt is Muzr. - MIZZAH despair, one of the four sons of Reuel, the son of Esau (Genesis
36:13, 17). - MNASON reminding, or remembrancer, a Christian of Jerusalem with
whom Paul lodged (Acts 21:16). He was apparently a native of Cyprus,
like Barnabas (11:19, 20), and was well known to the Christians of
Caesarea (4:36). He was an “old disciple” (R.V., “early disciple”), i.e., he
had become a Christian in the beginning of the formation of the Church in
Jerusalem. - MOAB the seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land,
the eldest son of Lot (Genesis 19:37), of incestuous birth.
(2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Numbers 22:3-14; Judges 3:30; 2
Samuel 8:2; Jeremiah 48:11, 13).
(3.) The land of Moab (Jeremiah 48:24), called also the “country of Moab”
(Ruth 1:2, 6; 2:6), on the east of Jordan and the Dead Sea, and south of the
Arnon (Numbers 21:13, 26). In a wider sense it included the whole region
that had been occupied by the Amorites. It bears the modern name of
Kerak.
In the Plains of Moab, opposite Jericho (Numbers 22:1; 26:63; Joshua
13:32), the children of Israel had their last encampment before they entered
the land of Canaan. It was at that time in the possession of the Amorites
(Numbers 21:22). “Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the
mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,” and “died there in the land of
Moab, according to the word of the Lord” (Deuteronomy 34:5, 6). “Surely
if we had nothing else to interest us in the land of Moab, the fact that it
was from the top of Pisgah, its noblest height, this mightiest of the
prophets looked out with eye undimmed upon the Promised Land; that it
was here on Nebo, its loftiest mountain, that he died his solitary death;
that it was here, in the valley over against Beth-peor, he found his