(from the right hand).
•A Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:15)
•The same as Miamin 2 and Mijamin 2. (Nehemiah 12:17)
•One of the priests at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 12:41)
Minister
This term is used in the Authorized Version to describe various officials of a religious and civil
character. Its meaning, as distinguished from servant, is a voluntary attendant on another. In the
Old Testament it is applied (1) to an attendance upon a person of high rank, (Exodus 24:13; Joshua
1:1; 2 Kings 4:43) (2) to the attaches of a royal court, (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chronicles 22:8) comp. Psal
104:4 (3) To the priests and Levites. (Ezra 8:17; Nehemiah 10:36; Isaiah 61:6; Ezekiel 44:11; Joel
1:9,13) One term in the New Testament betokens a subordinate public administrator, (Romans
13:6; 15:16; Hebrews 8:2) one who performs certain gratuitous public services. A second term
contains the idea of actual and personal attendance upon a superior, as in (Luke 4:20) The minister’s
duty was to open and close the building, to produce and replace the books employed in the service,
and generally to wait on the officiating priest or teacher. A third term, diakonos (from which comes
our word deacon), is the one usually employed in relation to the ministry of the gospel: its application
is twofold,—in a general sense to indicate ministers of any order, whether superior or inferior, and
in a special sense to indicate an order of inferiors ministers. [Deacon]
Minni
(division), (Jeremiah 51:27) already noticed as a portion of Armenia. [Armenia]
Minnith
(distribution), a place on the east of the Jordan, named as the point to which Jephthah’s slaughter
of the Ammonites extended. (Judges 11:33) The “wheat of Minnith” is mentioned in (Ezekiel 27:17)
as being supplied by Judah and Israel to Tyre; but there is nothing to indicate that the same place
is intended, and indeed the word is believed by some not to be a proper name.
Minstrel
The Hebrew word in (2 Kings 3:15) properly signifies a player upon a stringed instruments like
the harp or kinnor [Harp], whatever its precise character may have been, on which David played
before Saul, (1 Samuel 16:16; 18:10; 19:9) and which the harlots of the great cities used to carry
with them as they walked, to attract notice. (Isaiah 23:16) The “minstrels” in (Matthew 9:23) were
the flute-players who were employed as professional mourners, to whom frequent allusion is made.
(2 Chronicles 35:25; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Jeremiah 9:17-20)
Mint
This name occurs only in (Matthew 23:23) and Luke 11:42 As one of those herbs the tithe of
which the Jews were most scrupulously exact in paying. The horse mint, M. Sylvestris, and several
other species of mint are common in Syria.
Miphkad
(appointed place), The gate, one of the gates of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 3:31) It was probably
not in the wall of Jerusalem proper, but in that of the city of David, or Zion, and somewhere near
to the junction of the two on the north side.
Miracles
A miracle may be defined to be a plain and manifest exercise by a man, or by God at the call
of a man, of those powers which belong only to the Creator and Lord of nature; and this for the
declared object of attesting that a divine mission is given to that man. It is not, therefore, the wonder,
frankie
(Frankie)
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