(dunghill), a place in Moab, threatened with destruction in the pronunciations of Jeremiah.
(Jeremiah 48:2)
Madmenah
(dunghill), one of the, Benjamite villages north of Jerusalem the inhabitants of which were
frightened away by the approach of Sennacherib along the northern road. (Isaiah 10:31)
Madness
In Scripture “madness” is recognized as a derangement proceeding either from weakness and
misdirection of intellect or from ungovernable violence of passion. In one passage alone, (John
10:20) is madness expressly connected with demoniacal possession by the Jews in their cavil against
our Lord; in none is it referred to any physical causes.
Madon
(strife) one of the principal cities of Canaan before the conquest, probably in the north. Its king
joined Jabin and his confederates in their attempt against Joshua at the waters of Xierom, and like
the rest was killed. (Joshua 11:1; 12:19)
Magadan
(a tower). (The name given in the Revised Version of (Matthew 15:39) for Magdala. It is
probably another name for the same place, or it was a village so near it that the shore where Christ
landed may have belonged to either village.—ED.)
Magbish
(congregating), a proper name in (Ezra 2:30) but whether of a man or of a place is doubtful;
probably the latter, as all the names from (Ezra 2:20) to 34, except Elam and Harim, are names of
places.
Magdala
(a tower). The chief MSS. and versions exhibit the name as Magadan, as in the Revised Version.
Into the limits of Magadan Christ came by boat, over the Lake of Gennesareth after his miracle of
feeding the four thousand on the Mountain of the eastern side, (Matthew 15:39) and from thence
he returned in the same boat to the opposite shore. In the parallel narrative of St. Mark, ch. (Mark
8:10) we find the “parts of Dalmanutha,” on the western edge of the Lake of Gennesareth. The
Magdala, which conferred her name on “Mary the Magdalene one of the numerous migdols, i.e.
towers, which stood in Palestine, was probably the place of that name which is mentioned in the
Jerusalem Talmud as near Tiberias, and this again is as probably the modern el-Mejdel, a miserable
little Muslim village, of twenty huts on the water’s edge at the southeast corner of the plain of
Gennesareth. It is now the only inhabited place on this plain.
Magdiel
(prince of God), one of the “dukes” of Edom, descended from Esau. (Genesis 36:43; 1 Chronicles
1:54)
Magi
(Authorized Version wise men).
•In the Hebrew text of the Old Testament the word occurs but twice, and then only incidentally.
(Jeremiah 29:3,13) “Originally they were a class of priests among the Persians and Medes who
formed the king’s privy council, and cultivated as trology, medicine and occult natural science.
They are frequently referred to by ancient authors. Afterward the term was applied to all eastern
philosophers.”—Schaff’s Popular Commentary. They appear in Herodotus’ history of Astyages
as interpreters of dreams, i. 120; but as they appear in Jeremiah among the retinue of the Chaldean
frankie
(Frankie)
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