Smith's Bible Dictionary

(sick), Mah’li, the son of Merari. (Exodus 6:19) Mahanaim a town on the east of the Jordan. The name signifies two hosts or two ...

Makaz (end), a place, apparently a town, named once only— (1 Kings 4:9)—in the: specification of the jurisdiction of Solomon a c ...

Mamre (strength, fatness) an ancient Amorite, who with his brothers, Eshcol and Aner, was in alliance with Abram, (Genesis 14:13 ...

(forgetting), the eldest son of Joseph, (Genesis 41:51; 46:20) born 1715-10 B.C. Both he and Ephraim were born before the commen ...

so hot as to melt it; that it must be gathered every day except the Sabbath; that the attempt to lay aside for a succeeding day, ...

•(1 Kings 19:13,19; 2 Kings 2:8,13,14) The sole garment of the prophet Elijah. It was probably of sheepskin, such as is worn by ...

South-southwest of Beitjibrin—in all probability Eleutheropolis-and it little over a Roman mile therefrom is a site called Maras ...

fulfillment of our Lord’s predictions. Hence A.D. 63-70 becomes our limit, but nearer than this we cannot go.—Farrar. •Where it ...

Its origin and history .—The institution of marriage dates from the time of man’s original creation. (Genesis 2:18-25) From (Gen ...

celebrated by a feast, and among the more modern Jews it is the custom in some parts for the bride. groom to place a ring on the ...

•The allegorical and typical allusions to marriage have exclusive reference to one object, viz., to exhibit the spiritual relati ...

Mark 16:1; Luke 23:56) and was one of those who had “a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.” (Luke 24:23) She had fou ...

as he refused to admit any authority on the part of his relatives, or any privilege on account of their relationship. •The next ...

Mathusala = Methuselah, the son of Enoch. (Luke 3:37) Matithiah (gift of God). •A Levite who presided over the offerings made in ...

•A descendant of Asaph the Levite minstrel, who assisted in the purification of the temple in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicl ...

employed in the Gospel itself. The question is unsettled, the best scholars not agreeing in their Judgment concerning it. If the ...

Meadow In (Genesis 41:2,18) meadow appears to be an Egyptian term meaning some kind of flag or waterplant, as its use in (Job 8: ...

the feet, and sometimes the clothes, were perfumed with ointment, (Psalms 23:5; John 12:3) on special occasions robes were provi ...

that is, the native or inhabitant of a place called Mecherah. (1 Chronicles 11:36) In the parallel list of (2 Samuel 23:1) ... t ...

was overthrown by the Persians under Cyrus, B.C. 558, who captured its king, Astyages. The treatment of the Medes by the victori ...