Leaven
Leaven. Two Hebrew Words Are Thus Trans Lated In The A. V., 1. Sept. Nun (exod. Xii, 15, 19 ; Lev. Ri ; Dent. Xvi. 4). The Primary Meanin Of This Word The Lexicons Derive From Um An Unused Word Kindred With 'inc To Boil, To Swell Up ; Comp. ...
Lebanon
Lebanon, The Loftiest And Most Celebrated Mountain-range In Syria, Forming The Northern Boundary Of Palestine, And Running Thence Along The Coast Of The Mediterranean To The Great Pass Which Opens Into The Plain Of Hamath. The Range Of Anti-lebanon, Usually Included By Geographers Under The Same General Name, Lies Parallel ...
Lehabim
Lehabim (a,nr6; Aagici,u,; Laabim. The Passage In Claron. I. It Containing This Word Is Omitted In The Cod. Vat. Of The Sept. ; But The Alex. Reads Both Aotiatelp. And A Coszeip.). The Tenth Chapter Of Genesis Gives An Outline Of The Genealogy Of All The Ancient Nations, Tracing Them ...
Lemuel
Lemuel (sn'tin; Lxx., Lizr6 0e6? Aquila, . Acowav ; Symmachus, Twit:3677x; Theodotion, Pe 1300ex), A King, To Whom His Mother Addressed The Lessons Of Chastity And Temperance Contained In Prov. Xxxi. 2-9. As We Are Told Nothing Else Re Specting Him, And His Name Does Not Occur Else Where, A ...
Leo Di Modena
Leo Di Modena, B. Isaac B. Mordecai, Also Called Jehudah Arje Modanese, Was Born In Venice, April 23, 1571, Of An Ancient And Literary Family Who Emigrated From France Into Italy. Leo Displayed His Talents At So Extraordinarily Tender An Age That He Read The Sabbatic Lesson [haphtara] Before The ...
Leo Judie
Leo Judie, One Of The Swiss Reformers, And The Early Friend Of Zuingli, Was Born At Germar In Alsace, In 1482. His Father's Name Was John Jud ; But Whether This Arose From His Family Being Of Jewish Descent, Leo Himself Tells Us He Was Unable To Say. The Name, ...
Leopard 1
Leopard (1*), Name,- ; Sept. Rcip6axes ; Cant. Iv. 8 ; Is. Xi. 6 ; Jer. V. 6 ; Xiii. 23 ; Hos. Xiii. 7 ; Hab. I. 8 ; Dan. Vii. 6 ; Rev. Xiii. 2 ; Ec Clus. Xxviii. 23). Though Zoologists Differ In Opinion Respecting The Identity ...
Leusden
Leusden, John, Was Born At Utrecht 1624, And Died In 1699. For Nearly Fifty Years 1 Sustained A Very High Reputation As Professor Hebrew In The Recently Founded University Of I Native City. He Had Well Qualified Himself For Tl Duties Of This Office By Careful Study Of Theology At ...
Levdekker
Levdekker (marcmolt) Was Born At /vliddleburg In Holland, In The Year 1642. From 1679 To His Death In 1721, He Zealously Discharged His Duties Of Professor Of Divinity At Utrecht, In Defence Of The Reformed Religion Against All Comers. The Cartesian Philosophy, The Theology Of Cocceius, The Writings Of Drusius, ...
Levi B Gershon Ralbag
Levi B. Gershon. [ralbag.] Leviatiian Ori4; Lxx. 76 1.4gya Xciros, 11.• Spcikun, ; Compl. ?-43iaecip), An Aquatic Animal, Which, Though Only Five Times Mentioned By Name In The Bible (job Iii. ; Xli. Heb. Xl. 25 ; Ps. Lxxiv. 14 ; Civ. 26 ; Is. Xxvii. T), Is Described In ...
Libneh
Libneh (r1)1) Occurs In Two Places Of Scrip Ture, Viz. Gen. Xxx. 37 ; Hosea Iv. 13, And Is Supposed To Indicate Either The White Poplar Or The Storax Tree. Libneh, In The Passage Of Hosea, Is Translated Adrob • White Poplar,' In The Septuagint, And This Translation Is Adopted ...
Light
Light Is Represented In The Scriptures As The Immediate Result And Offspring Of A Divine Com Mand (gen. I. 3). The Earth Was Void And Dark, When God Said, Let Light Be, And Light Was. This Is Represented As Having Preceded The Placing Of 'lights In The Firmament Of Heaven, ...
Lilith
Lilith (rm), A Term Which Occurs Only Once In Scripture (is. Xxxiv. 14). Derived From Night, It Means Simply Nocturnal ; And, Standing As It Does In A List Of Animals, It Must Be Regarded As Either The Name Of Some Particular Nocturnal Crea Ture, Or As A Generic Name ...
Limolph Koster
Koster, Limolph, One Of The Ablest Greek Scholars Of His Day, Born At Blomberg In West Phalia, Feb. 167o, And Educated By His Elder Brother At The Joachim College At Berlin. His Ability As A Student Attracted The Notice Of Span Heim, Who Became His Patron, And By Whose Influence ...
Lintel
Lintel. The Headpiece Of A Door Frame, Or Window Frame. In The A. V. Three Hebrew Words Are Thus Rendered :— (1.) (t Kings Vi. 31i, Translated Post ' In Ezek. Xl., Xli. A Technical Architectural Term, Of Which The Exact Meaning, In Our Present Ig,norance Of Semitic Architecture, It ...
Lion Iii
Lion (*iii Ari; Arjeh ; Sept. Vow), The . Most Powerful, Daring, And Impressive Of All Car Nivorous Animals, The Most Magnificent In Aspect And Awful In Voice. Being Very Common In Syria In Early Times, The Lion Naturally Supplied Many Forcible Images To The Poetical Language Of Scrip Ture, ...
Litter
Litter. The Word Translated Litter In Is. Lxvi. 20, Is Mv Tzab ; And Is The Same Which, In Num. Vii. 3, Denotes The Wains Or Carts Drawn By Oxen, In Which The Materials Of The Tabernacle Were Removed From Place To Place. The Tzab Was Not, Therefore, A Litter, ...
Liver Cizz
Liver Cizz) Occurs In Exod. Xxix. 13, 22 ; Lev. Iii. 4, I°, 15; Iv. 9 ; Vii. 4 ; Viii. 16, 25 ; Ix. To, 19 ; Prov. Vii. 23 ; Lam. Ii. I I ; Ezek. X Xi. 21. The Hebrew Word Is Generally Derived From 117, To ...
Loan
Loan. The Mosaic Laws Which Relate To The Subject Of Borrowing, Lending, And Repaying, Are In Substance As Follows :—if An Israelite Became Poor, What He Desired To Borrow Was To Be Freely Lent To Him, And No Interest, Either Of Money Or Produce, Could Be Exacted From Him ; ...
Locust Arreh Chagaschanamal
Locust. [arreh ; Chagas ; Chanamal ; Chargoi.; Chasil ; Gazam; Gob; Salam; Tze Latzal ; Yelek.] Lod, And In The N. T. Lydda R6, Perhaps ' Strife ;' Atha, Ao8(13( ; Alex. A68, Aoncov ; Lod ; In N. T. A088a). We Read In Chron. Viii. 12, That Shamed, ...
Longevity
Longevity. Longevity Is A Compound Of Two Latin Words, And Signifies Prolong-ation Of Lip. The Lengthened Ages Of Some Of The Ante And Post Diluvian Fathers, As Given By Moses In The Hebrew Text, Are As Follows Infidelity Has Not Failed, In Various Ages, To Attack Revelation On The Score ...
Lord
Lord, A Saxon Word Signifying Ruler Or Gover Nor. In Its Original Form It Is Hlafard (hlacopb), Which, By Dropping The Aspiration, Became Laford, And Afterwards, By Contraction, /o/il. In The Autho Rised Translation Of The Scriptures It Is Used, With Out Much Discrimination, For All The Names Applied To ...
Lowe
Lowe, Joel B. Jehudah Loeb, Also Called Bril From The Initials T9 R111714 ,m1 B'en R. Yehudale Loeb, Was Born About 1740, And Died In Breslau, Feb. 1i, 1802. He Was A Distinguished Disciple Of Moses Mendelssohn, And Professor In The William School At Breslau, Where He Wiote Most Of ...
Lubims Lubim
Lubim, Lubims, And In Dan. Xi. 43 Libyans 0=6 ; But In Dan. N4m9; Aipues ; Libyes, Libya); In The N. T. Libya (a/13677). When, During The Reign Of Rehoboam, Shishak King Of Egypt Invaded Judah, He Was Accompanied By The Laibims, The Sukkims, And The Ethiopians' (2 Chron. Xii. ...
Lucifer
Lucifer Sept. 6 `ecoculapos), A Word That Occurs Once In The English Version In The Lines— ' How Art Thou Fallen From Heaven, Lucifer, Son Of The Morning! How Art Thou Felled To The Ground, That Didst Weaken The Nations !' (is. Xiv. 12). It Is Taken From The Vulgate, ...
Lucius 1 Lxx
Lucius. 1. (lxx. Aetiktor ; Ald. Aolcklos ; Vulg. Lucius), A Roman Consul (biraros`pwisaluo), Who Is Recorded As Having Written A Letter To King Ptolemee (euergetes Ii., Physcon), In Which The Old Friendship And League Was To Be Renewed With Simon, And The Protection Of The Romans Accorded To Him ...
Ludim 0419
Ludim (041)9, Gen. X. 13; N44-6, Chron. I. ; A00.3tela. ; Ludine ; 1;9,, Ez.ek. Xxx. 5 ; Av8o1, Lydi). Of Mizraim, The Second Son Of Ham, We Read (gen. X. 13), That ` He Begat Ludim, And Anamim, And Lehabim,' Etc. These Are All In The Plural, And Denote ...
Luke
Luke. The Name Aovezils Is Abbreviated From Aourcapos, Lueanas, Or Aourixt6s, Lucilius (meyer) ; Cf. Szlas For Silvaines ; Annas For Annanus ; Zenas For Zenodorns ; Winer, Gram. P. 115. The Contraction Of Avos Into Eis Is Said To Be Charac Teristic Of The Names Of Slaves (see Lobeck, ...
Lysanias
Lysanias (avaavias) Is Mentioned By St. Luke, In Chap. Iii. 1, As Tetrarch Of Abilene On The Eastern Slope Of The Anti-lebanon, Near Damascus. Amidst The Obscurity Which Surrounds This Name, Conjectures Have Been Indulged In, Two Of Which We Will Here Notice. According To Eusebius (whom Others Have Followed, ...
Lysias
Lysias (auzzia4. A Syrian Nobleman Of The Blood Royal ' Whom Antiochus Epiphanes, When Setting Out For Persia, Appointed Guardian Of His Son, And Regent Of That Part Of His Kingdom Which Extended From The Euphrates To The Borders Of Egypt (i Maccab. Iii. 32 ; 2 Maccab. X. H ...
Lystra
Lystra (ailarpa), A City Of Lycacnia, In Asia Minor, Mentioned In Connection With Derbe. When Paul And Barnabas Were Persecuted At Iconium They Fled Unto Lystra And Derbe, And Unto The Region That Lieth Round About ' (acts Xiv. 6). These Two Towns Must Have Been Close To Each Other. ...
Maacah
Maacah, And Maachah In 2 Sam. X. 6 The Vat. Cod. Reads 'a/40*, But The Alex. Maaxd ; Maacha). 1. A Small But Very Ancient Kingdom Of Canaan (deut. Iii. 14 ; Chron Xix. 7). The Gentile Noun Is Maachathi, Or Maachathite (4379pn ; ; Maclean). The Exact Position Of ...
Macedonia
Macedonia (makcsopla), A Name Onginally Confined To The Country Lying Northward Of Thes Sal', Eastward Of The Cardavian Mountains (a Pro Longation Of Mount Pindus), And Westward Of The River Axius ; But Afterwards Extended Over The -whole Country Lying To The North Of Greece Proper, And Stretching From The ...
Machir Too
Machir (too, Sold; Lxx., Maxelp), The Eldest And Apparently The Only Son Of Manasseh By An Aramitish Or Syrian Concubine. His Wife Was Maacah, Of The Family Of Benjamin, The Sister Of Huppim And Shuppim,' And It Is Specially Recorded That His Children Were Brought Up' (the Targum Says Circumcised ...
Machpelah
Machpelah (14tzc ; Rb Stirxoriv ; Duplex), The Celebrated Burial-place Of The Patriarchs At Hebron. It Is Interesting To Note The Several Ways In Which The Word Machpelah Is Used In Genesis— The Only Book Of Scripture In Which It Occurs. In Two Passages (gen. Xxiii. 9 ; Xxv. 9), ...
Madmannah
Madmannah Dunghill,' From Pi = Arab. ; Maxapli. ; Alex. Beseflnyd; But In Chron. Masannt ; Afedemena ; Madmen), One Of A Group Of Cities Described As Belonging To Judah, And Lying Toward The Coast Of Edom South Wards' (josh. Xv. 21, 31). The Group Has Twenty Nine Cities Altogether, ...
Madness Madman
Madman, Madness. Two Hebrew Words Are Rendered By 'madness' In The A. V., Viz.— And 69fil. The Words Rendered Mad,' Or ,••• Madman,' Are 3=.`'n, And R6911n. A Brief Ex T Amination Of These Words Will Show Us The Jewish Conception Of The Nature Of Madness. 1. Ripp (lxx. Vaprorm2eia, ...
Magdala
Magdala (mataaltd=heb. 'a Tower,' Mageda). This Word Occurs In Only One Place In The Gospels, Matt. Xv. 39, And Though The T. R. Has It In That Passage, Yet The Best Mss. (sin., Vat., D.) Read Magadan (mwyaady), Which, Alford Observes, ' Appears To Have Been The Original Read Ing, ...
Magdalene
Magdalene (mapfa St Ma-y.3annv7j). Each Of The Four Evangelists Mentions Mary Mag Dalene By Name, And In Each Case She Is Referred To As Being In Attendance On Our Lord. She Is First Mentioned With Two Other Women Whom He Had Healed Of Certain Infirmities, And Who, Like Her, Tes ...
Magi
Magi. This Name Has Come To Us Through The Greeks As The Proper Designation Of The Priestly Class Among The Persians (herod., I. 132, 140 ; Xenoph., Cyrop. Viii. 1. 23 ; Plato, Alcib. I. P. 122 ; Diog. Laert., Frozen:. I, 2 ; Cicero, De Divin. I. 41 ; ...
Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
Cassiodorus, Magnus Aurelius. Born In Calabria About 470 Or 480. He Was Of Good Family, And Was The Principal Minister And Associate Of Theodoric, King Of The Ostrogoths, And Con Tinued In High Office Under His Immediate Succes Sors. At The Age Of 66 Years, Probably From A Desire For ...
Magog
Magog Sept. Ma-yetry), The Second Son Of Japheth (gen. X. 2; I Chron. I. 5), From Whom The Name Was Extended To The People Descended From Him. In The List Magog Stands Between Gomer And Madai, The Cimmerians Or Cimbri [gomer], And The Medes [ma0a1] ; And We Are Thereby ...
Mahanaim
Mahanaim (min ; According To Gesenius Pl. Of 4:rin, Camp ;' But More Probably Dual, Double Camp,' Ilapc/aponai ; In Josh. Xih. 26, 30, ; And Xxi. 38, Kaiztv ; Alex. Mavata, Etc. ; Mahanaim, Id Est Castra ; And Manaim), A Town East Of The Jordan And On The ...
Mahaneh Dan
Mahaneh-dan (1-117p, 'camp Of Dan ;' Flapc430m Lido ; Castro Dan), The Name Given To The Place Where The Danites Assembled And En. Camped Before Setting Out On Their Expedition Against Laish. It Is Described As In, That Is, Ry Within The Territory Of Kirjath-jearim, And Situated ' Behind' Erg) ...
Mahlon
Mahlon (j'6fid ; Maaxuiv ; Mahalon) Is Men Tioned In Ruth Iv. Jo As The Husband Of Ruth. His Name Occurs In Three Other Places, With That Of His Brother Chilion (ruth I. 2, 5, And Iv. 9). From The First Of These Passages, Which Formally Treats Of His Family, ...
Maid
Maid, E., Similar To The Aromatic Bdelhum (num. Xi. 7). In The Syriac Version It Is 1../.e.lo; &zilch°, Evidently For Mukha, The Two Letters R And D Being So Similar As To Be Easily Confounded With One Another In Transcribing. We Find The Same Translation In The Samaritan And Chaldee, ...
Makkedah 79
Makkedah (79 ; Perhaps Place Of Shepherds,' From Root 17j ; Gesen., Thesaurus, S. V. ; Maknaci, But In Josh. Xv. 41 Maxn5dx• ; Alex. Mamnscl ; Maceda), An Ancient Royal City Of Canaan (josh. Xii. 16), Captured By Joshua Imme Diately After The Defeat Of The Allied Kings At ...
Malcham 1
Malcham 1. A Name Of The Am Monite Idol, Commonly Called Molech. The Name Molech, Ob, Is From The Same Root As 'op, King,' And Evidently Of The Same Significa Tion, Having In All Occurrences But One (t Kings Xi. S) The Article, 'ham-molech,' Tt. Its Pronun Ciation Being Sufficiently ...
Malchus
Malchus (mdxxos), The Servant Of The High Priest Whose Ear Peter Cut Off At The Arrest Of Our Lord. All The Evangelists Record The Act (matt. Xxvi., Mark Xvi., Luke Xxii., John Xviii.), But Only St. John Gives The Names Peter And Malchus. Some Think Peter's Name Was Omitted By ...
Malluach
Malluach (176p) Occurs Only Once In Scrip Ture, Namely, In The Passage Where Job Complains That He Is Subjected To The Contumely Of The Meanest People, Those Who Cut Up Mallows (malluach) By The Bushes--- For Their Meat' (job Xxx. 4). The Proper Meaning Of The Word Malluach Has Been ...
Manasseh
Manasseh (id= ; Sept. .limmo-oijs), Four Teenth King Of Judah, Son And Successor Of Heze Kiah, Who Began To Reign In B.c. 699, At The Early Age Of Twelve Years, And Reigned Fifty-five Years. It Appears That The Secret Enemies Of The Vigorous Reforms Of Hezekiah Re-appeared, And Managed To ...
Manasseh Ben Israel
Manasseh Ben Israel, As He Is Com Monly Called, But More Properly Manasse Ben Joseph Ben Israel, For Israel Was His Grandfather And Joseph His Father. This Remarkable Linguist, Who Successively Published His Voluminous Works In Hebrew, Latin, Portuguese, English, Etc., Was Born In Lisbon 1604. Deprived Of Their Health ...
Manetho
Manetho, Of Sebennytus, Was Distinguished For Priestly Learning At The Court Of The First Ptolemy ; So Plutarch Relates (de Is. Et Os., C. 28), Who Cites A Religious Work Of His In Greek, Which Is Quoted Also Under Various Names By .1elian, Diogenes Ldertius, Porphyry, And Other Late Writers ...
Manger
Manger (cpciro); Phatne). The Word 'halite Occurs Four Times In The N. T. ,and Only In St. Luke's Gospel. In The Account Of The Nativity, Where It Is Repeated Thrice, It Is In The A. V. Translated Manger,' But In The Fourth Passage It Is Translated Stall.' The Question To ...
Manna
Manna. No Travellers In The East Have Given Us Much In Formation Respecting The Treatment Of Bees, Or Any Peculiar Modes Of Preparing The Honey. Honey Was Not Permitted To Be Offered On The Altar (lev. Ii. T). As It Is Coupled With Leaven In This Prohibition, It Would Seem ...
Mantle
Mantle. This, In The A. V., Is The Term Used To Render Four Hebrew Words, Viz.— R. Rrn,t, A Feminine Noun, From Ample,' And Therefore Probably Meaning A Large Over-gar Ment Like The Roman Pallium. The Lxx. Ren Der It By ,unxem) (a Sheep's Skin), R Kings Xix. 13, Etc. ...
Maonites
Maonites Op: ; Masmia; Chanaan). It Is To Be Observed That, Though In Our A. V. The Name Maonites Occurs In Judg. X. 12, Yet The Hebrew Word So Rendered Is The Same Elsewhere Translated Ma0n ( Josh. Xv. 55 ; A Sam. Xxiii. 24), And Ap Plied To A ...
Marah 11
Marah (; -11, Bitterness; Sept. Mapci). The Israelites, In Departing From Egypt, Made Some Stay On The Shores Of The Red Sea, At The Place Where It Had Been Crossed By Them. From This Spot They Proceeded Southward For Three Days With Out Finding Any Water, And Then Came To ...
Mark
Mark. John Whose Surname Was Mark,' With Whom The Evangelist May Almost Certainly Be Identified, Was The Son Of A Jewish Matron Of Sub Stance And Position, Residing At Jerusalem. Her House Formed An Ordinary Place Of Assemblage For Christians Even In Times Of Danger And Persecution (acts Xii. 12), ...
Martha
Martha (mcip0a), Sister Of Lazarus And Mary, Who Resided In The Same House With Them At Bethany. From The House At Bethany Being Called Her House' In Luke X. 38, And From The Leading Part Which Martha Is Always Seen To Take In Domestic Matters, It Has Seemed To Some ...
Martin Chemnitz
Chemnitz, Martin, A Distinguished Theolo Gian Of The T6th Century, Was Born On The 9th November 1522, In Mark Brandenburg. At The Age Of Fourteen He Was Sent To The School At Wit Tenberg, Where He Had An Opportunity Of Hearing Luther Preach. He Was Soon Taken Back To His ...
Martin Luther
Luther, Martin, The Great German Re Former, Whose World-fame Renders It Superfluous To Give Here More Than The Barest Outline Of His His Tory, Was Born At Eisleben Loth November 1483 ; Became A Monk Of The Augustinian Order At Er Furt In 15o5 ; Was Appointed Professor Of Dialectic ...
Mattanah
Mattanah ; A Gift,' As In Gen. Xxv. 6 ; Mavatiaelp ; Matthana), One Of The Stations Of The Israelites. It Lay On The Border Between Moab And The Amorites, On The North Side Of The Arnon, And Eastward Toward The Wilderness Of Arabia (num. Xxi. Ii, 13-18). The Whole ...
Matthew
Matthew (marocaos ; Lachmann, Alford, Ma08dios, With B. D. ; Matthaus). Few Things Are More Suggestive To The Thoughtful Mind Than The Scantiness Of Our Knowledge Of The Lives And Actions Of The Apostles And Evangelists Of Our Lord. Of Several Of The Twelve Nothing Beyond The Names Has Reached ...
Matthew Poole
Poole, Matthew, A Learned And Laborious Nonconformist Divine, Was Born At York, In 1624, Of Parents In Affluent Circumstances. Having Studied At Emmanuel College, Cambridge, He After Wards Became Minister Of Mary Le Querne, Lon Don, From Which He Was Ejected In 1662 For Non Conformity. Deprived Of His Cure, ...
Matthias Fred Beck
Beck, Matthias Fred., A Lutheran Minister At Augsburg, Born 23d May 1649, Died 2d Feb. 1701, Was The Editor Of Paraph. Chald. L Libri Chroniconan Hactenus Inedita, Atone Vein E Codice Hs. Bibl. Erdfurt. Exscripta, 4t0, Augs. 168o ; Par. Chald. Ii. Lib. Chinn. Etc., 4to, Ibid. 1683. Bed. The ...
Meadow
Meadow. The Representative In The A. V. Of Two Distinct Words, Neither Of Which Is Accurately Rendered By It. (i.) 111, &flu (gen. Xli. 2, 18). In The Only Other Place Where It Occurs (job Viii. S) It Is Translated 'flag,' Lxx. And Corresponds To T•473, Gsme, Lxx. 7rdirupar, The ...
Mectoimktiou
Mectoimktiou, Midnight, From The Third Hour To Midnight. 'axetcropoq50.wias, Cock-crowing, From Midnight To The Third Hour After Midnight. Ended With The Second Cock-crowing. Lipcg, Early, From The Ninth Hour Of The Night To The Twelfth, Including The Morning Dawn Or Twilight. Also Called Irpwta, Morning-tide Or Morning (john Xviii. 28). ...
Medan
Medan (nn, Maadv, And Mabdg ; Madan), The Third Son Of Abraham By Keturah (gen. Xxv. 2; 1 Chron. I. 32). All The Sons Of Keturah Appear To Have Become The Heads Of Arab Tribes, And Some Of Them, As Jokshan And Midian, Were Celebrated In After History. Medan, However, ...
Medeba
Medeba Water Of Rest;' In Num. Xxi. 30, Mwdp; Miaaf3dp; Mnsagd; In Josh. Xiii. 16 The Lxx. Omits The Word ; And In Is. Xv. 2, It Reads Mwapiriaor; Medaba), A City Of Moab, First Mentioned In The Short Ode Describing The Conquest Of That Country By Sihon The Amorite ...
Media
Media And Medes ('it). The Same He Brew Word Is Used In The O. T. As The Name Of A Son Of Japhet, Of The Nation Which He Founded, And Of Their Country. Hence We Find It Rendered In Four Different Ways In Our A. V. In Most Cases These ...
Mediator
Mediator (.11eo-trns, Mediator') Is A Word Peculiar To The Scriptures (see Beza, Annot. In Gr. Test.), And Is Used To Signify An Intemuncius, Or Ambassador, One Who Stands As The Channel Of Communication Between Two Contracting Parties. Some Commentators Think That The Apostle Paul, In Gal. Iii. 19, Calls Moses ...
Megiddo
Megiddo (i1=, And In Zech. Xii. Frl= ; And ; Alex. Ma-yendip And Maye8wv ; Mageddo), An Ancient Royal City Of The Canaanites Enumerated Among Those Whose Kings Were Slain By Joshua (josh. Xii. 2x). Though Within The Allotted Territory Of Issachar, It, With Several Other Cities In The Plain, ...
Melita
Melita An Island In The Mediter Ranean, On Which The Ship Which Was Conveying St. Paul As A Prisoner To Rome Was Wrecked, And Which Was The Scene Of The Interesting Circumstances Recorded In Acts Xxvii. Xxviii. Melita Was The Ancient Name Of Malta, And Also Of A Small Island ...
Mene Mene
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin (mn, Nap ; Sept. Mamj, ; Vulg. Mane, Thecel, Phares), The Inscription Supernaturally Written Upon The Plaster Of The Wall' In Belshazzar's Palace At Babylon (dan. V. 5-25) ; Which The Astrologers, The Chaldxans, And The Soothsayers,' Could Neither Read Nor Inter Pret, Hut Which Daniel ...