(eloquent), probably a Gershonite Levite of the sons of Asaph, who assisted at the dedication
of the walls of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 12:36)
Milcah
(queen or counsel).
•Daughter of Haran and wife of her uncle Nahor, Abraham’s brother, to whom she bore eight
children. (Genesis 11:29; 22:20,23; 24:15,24,47)
•The fourth daughter of Zelophehad. (Numbers 26:33; 27:1; 36:11; Joshua 17:3)
Milcom
(great king). [Molech]
Mile
a Roman measure of length, equal to 1618 English yards—4854 feet, or about nine-tenths of
an English mile. It is only once noticed in the Bible, (Matthew 5:41) the usual method of reckoning
both in the New Testament and in Josephus being by the stadium. The mile of the Jews is said to
have been of two kinds, long or short, dependent on the length of the pace, which varied in different
parts, the long pace being double the length of the short one.
Miletus
(Acts 20:15,17) less correctly called MILETUM in (2 Timothy 4:20) It lay on the coast, 36
miles to the south of Ephesus, a day’s sail from Trogyllium. (Acts 20:15) Moreover, to those who
are sailing from the north it is in the direct line for Cos. The site of Miletus has now receded ten
miles from the coast, and even in the apostles’ time it must have lost its strictly maritime position.
Miletus was far more famous five hundred years before St. Paul’s day than it ever became afterward.
In early times it was the most flourishing city of the Ionian Greeks. In the natural order of events
it was absorbed in the Persian empire. After a brief period of spirited independence, it received a
blow from which it never recovered, in the siege conducted by Alexander when on his eastern
campaign. But still it held, even through the Roman period, the rank of a second-rate trading town,
and Strabo mentions its four harbors. At this time it was politically in the province of Asia, though
Caria was the old ethnological name of the district in which it was situated. All that is left now is
a small Turkish village called Melas, near the site of the ancient city.
Milk
As an article of diet, milk holds a more important position in eastern countries than with us. It
is not a mere adjunct in cookery, or restricted to the use of the young, although it is naturally the
characteristic food of childhood, both from its simple and nutritive qualities. (1 Peter 2:2) and
particularly as contrasted with meat, (1 Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12) but beyond this it is regarded
as substantial food adapted alike to all ages and classes. Not only the milk of cows, but of sheep,
(32:14) of camels, (Genesis 32:15) and of goats, (Proverbs 27:27) was used; that latter appears to
have been most highly prized.
Mill
The mills of the ancient Hebrews probably differed but little from those at present in use in the
East. These consist of two circular stones, each about eighteen inches or two feet in diameter, the
lower of which is fixed, and has its upper surface slightly convex, fitting into a corresponding
concavity in the upper stone. In the latter is a hole thorough which the grain passes, immediately
above a pivot or shaft which rises from the centre of the lower stone, and about which the upper
stone is turned by means of an upright handle fixed near the edge. It is worked by women, sometimes
singly and sometimes two together, who are usually seated on the bare ground. (Isaiah 47:1,2)
frankie
(Frankie)
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