- MALCHI-SHUA king of help, one of the four sons of Saul (1 Chronicles
8:33). He perished along with his father in the battle of Gilboa (1 Samuel
31:2). - MALCHUS reigning, the personal servant or slave of the high priest
Caiaphas. He is mentioned only by John. Peter cut off his right ear in the
garden of Gethsemane (John 18:10). But our Lord cured it with a touch
(Matthew 26:51; Mark 14:47; Luke 22:51). This was the last miracle of
bodily cure wrought by our Lord. It is not mentioned by John. - MALLOTHI my fulness, a Kohathite Levite, one of the sons of Heman
the Levite (1 Chronicles 25:4), and chief of the nineteenth division of the
temple musicians (26). - MALLOWS occurs only in Job 30:4 (R.V., “saltwort”). The word so
rendered (malluah, from melah, “salt”) most probably denotes the Atriplex
halimus of Linnaeus, a species of sea purslane found on the shores of the
Dead Sea, as also of the Mediterranean, and in salt marshes. It is a tall
shrubby orach, growing to the height sometimes of 10 feet. Its buds and
leaves, with those of other saline plants, are eaten by the poor in Palestine. - MALLUCH reigned over, or reigning. (1.) A Levite of the family of
Merari (1 Chronicles 6:44).
(2.) A priest who returned from Babylon (Nehemiah 12:2).
(3.) Ezra 10:29. (4.) Ezra 10:32
- MAMMON a Chaldee or Syriac word meaning “wealth” or “riches” (Luke
16:9-11); also, by personification, the God of riches (Matthew 6:24; Luke
16:9-11). - MAMRE manliness. (1.) An Amoritish chief in alliance with Abraham
(Genesis 14:13, 24).
(2.) The name of the place in the neighbourhood of Hebron (q.v.) where
Abraham dwelt (Genesis 23:17, 19; 35:27); called also in Authorized
Version (13:18) the “plain of Mamre,” but in Revised Version more
correctly “the oaks [marg., ‘terebinths’] of Mamre.” The name probably
denotes the “oak grove” or the “wood of Mamre,” thus designated after
Abraham’s ally.