Mamre
(strength, fatness) an ancient Amorite, who with his brothers, Eshcol and Aner, was in alliance
with Abram, (Genesis 14:13,51) and under the shade of whose oak grove the patriarch dwelt in the
interval between his residence at Bethel and at Beersheba. ch. (Genesis 13:18; 18:1) In the subsequent
chapters Mamre is a mere local appellation. ch, (Genesis 23:17,19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13)
Man
Four Hebrew terms are rendered “man” in the Authorized Version:
•Adam, the name of the man created in the image of God. It appears to be derived from adam, “he
or it was red or ruddy,” like Edom. This was the generic term for the human race.
•Ish, “man,” as distinguished from woman, husband.
•Geber, “a man,” from gabar, “to be strong,” generally with reference to his strength.
•Methim, “men,” always masculine. Perhaps it may be derived from the root muth, “he died.”
Manaen
(comforter) is mentioned in (Acts 13:1) as one of the teachers and prophets in the church at
Antioch at the time of the appointment of Saul and Barnabas as missionaries to the heathen. He is
said to have been brought up with Herod Antipas. He was probably his foster-brother.
Manahath
(rest) one of the sons of Shobal, and descendant of Seir the Horite. (Genesis 36:23; 1 Chronicles
1:40)
(rest), a place named in (1 Chronicles 8:6) only in connection with the genealogies of the tribe
of Benjamin.
Manahetbites
(inhabitants of Mannahath), The. “Half the Manahethites” are named in the genealogies of
Judah as descended from Shobal, the father of Kirjath-jearim (1 Chronicles 2:52) and half from
Salma, the founder of Bethlehem. ver. 54.
Manasseh
(forgetting).
•The thirteenth king of Judah, son of Hezekiah, (2 Kings 21:1) ascended the throne at the age of
twelve, and reigned 55 years, from B.C. 608 to 642. His accession was the signal for an entire
change in the religious administration of the kingdom. Idolatry was again established to such an
extent that every faith was tolerated but the old faith of Israel. The Babylonian alliance which the
king formed against Assyria resulted in his being made prisoner and carried off to Babylon in the
twenty-second year of his reign, according to a Jewish tradition. There his eyes were opened and
he repented, and his prayer was heard and the Lord delivered him, (2 Chronicles 33:12,13) and
he returned after some uncertain interval of time to Jerusalem. The altar of the Lord was again
restored, and peace offerings and thank offerings were sacrificed to Jehovah. (2 Chronicles 38:15,16)
But beyond this the reformation did not go. On his death, B.C. 642, he was buried as Ahaz had
been, not with the burial of a king, in the sepulchres of the house of David, but in the garden of
Uzza, (2 Kings 21:26) and long afterward, in suite of his repentance, the Jews held his name in
abhorrence.
•One of the descendants of Pahathmoab, who in the days of Ezra had married a foreign wife. (Ezra
10:30)
•One of the laymen, of the family of Hashum who put away his foreign wife at Ezra command.
(Ezra 10:33)
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