Merab
(increase), eldest daughter of King Saul. (1 Samuel 14:49) In accordance with the promise
which he made before the engagement with Goliath, ch. (1 Samuel 17:25) Saul betrothed Merab
to David. ch. (1 Samuel 18:17) Before the marriage Merab’s younger sister Michal had displayed
her attachment for David, and Merab was then married to Adriel the Meholathite to whom she bore
five sons. (2 Samuel 21:8)
Meraiah
(rebellion), a priest in the day of Joiakim. (Nehemiah 12:13)
Meraioth
(rebellious).
•A descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron and head of a priestly house. (1 Chronicles 6:61; 7:62)
It is apparently another Meraioth who comes in between Zadok and Ahitub in the genealogy of
Azariah. (1 Chronicles 9:11; Nehemiah 11:11)
•The head of one of the houses of priests, which in the time of Joiakim the son of Jeshua was
represented by helkai. (Nehemiah 12:15)
Merarath
(bareness), one of the towns of Judah, in the district of the mountains. (Joshua 15:59) The places
which occur in company with have been identified at a few miles to the north of Hebron, but Maarath
has hitherto eluded observation.
Merari, Merarites
(bitter, unhappy), third son of Levi and head of the third great division of the Levites, the
Merarites. (Genesis 46:8,11) At the time of the exodus and the numbering in the wilderness, the
Merarites consisted of two families, the Mahlites and the Mushites, Mahli and Mushi being either
the two sons of the son and grandson of Merari. (1 Chronicles 6:19,47) Their chief at that time was
Zuriel. Their charge was the cords of the tabernacle and the court, and all the tools connected with
setting them up. In the division of the land by Joshua, the merarites had twelve cities assigned to
them, out of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun. (Joshua 21:7; 34-40; 1 Chronicles 6:63; 77-81) In the days
of Hezekiah the Merarites were still flourishing. (2 Chronicles 29:12,15)
Merathaim
(double rebellion), The land of, alluding to the country of the Chaldeans, and to the double
captivity which it had inflicted on the nation of Israel. (Jeremiah 50:21)
Mercurius
(herald of the gods), properly Hermes, the Greek deity, whom the Romans identified with their
Mercury, the god of commerce and bargains. Hermes was the son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Maia the
daughter of Atals, and is constantly represented as the companion of his father in his wandering
upon earth. The episode of Baucis and Philemon, Ovid, Metam. viii. 620-724, appears to have
formed part of the folk-lore of Asia Minor, and strikingly illustrates the readiness with which the
simple people of Lystra recognized in Barnabas and Paul the gods who, according to their wont,
had come down in the likeness of men. (Acts 14:11)
Mercury
(Acts 14:12) the translation of the above in the Revised Version.
Mercyseat
(Exodus 25:17; 37:6; Hebrews 9:5) This appears to have been merely the lid of the ark of the
covenant, not another surface affixed thereto. (It was a solid plate of gold, 2 1/2 cubits (6 1/3 feet)
frankie
(Frankie)
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