Meni
Meni, S=, Is. Lxv. Ii, The Only Place Where The Word Occurs. It Is Rendered By The Lxx. Although Some Copies Have Ti Aalgoviy, And In The Former Clause As The Equivalent Of11 This Transposition Is Adopted By Jerome (et Paratis Fortune Niensam, Et Impletis Demoni Potionem), Who Also In ...
Ment
Ment], And _intel I.e., The White Burial Garment, In Harmony With His Position And In Pro Portion To The Dowry. The Marriage Is To Be (d. V.) On The . . . In The Place . . . At The Expense Of The Said C, The Bride's Father ; And ...
Meon
Meon. Woman And Man, To The Left, In An Attitud Of Adoration ? Them, A Chest, Within Which, Man And Woman, To The Left ; Upon The Side Of The Chest, Nf2e, The Third Letter Indistinct : Above, Dove? Flying To The Right, Bearing Branch : Upon The Chest, A ...
Meonenim
Meonenim. The Word Occurs In The A. V. (judg. Ix. 37) In The Proper Name Elon-meonenim R6,4), The Plain ;' Or, As It Should Be Rendered, The Oak Of Meonenim' (lxx. "hxcup Macoveptu, Cod. Alex. Spbor Arof3xerovrcop, Marg. A. V. Regarders Of Times ').* Meonenim Means Sorcerers, And Is Derived ...
Merab
Merab (11!? ; Lxx. Mep6(3 ; Joseph. Me P66'n ; Vulg. Merob), The Elder Of Saul's Two Daughters (i Sam. Xiv. 49 ; Xviii. 17 ; Joseph. Vi. 6. 5), Whom Her Father Promised To Give In Marriage To David, In The Hope That The Warlike Service Which Was Imposed ...
Mercy Seat
Mercy-seat (flrihm ; Sept. Ixaartiiptofr , Vulg. Propitiatorium ; Luth. Gnadenstlehl). The Hebrew Name Literally Denotes A Cover, And, In Fact, Describes The Lid Of The Ark With Cherubim, Over Which Appeared 4 The Glory Of God' (exod. Xxvi. 17, Seq. ; Xxx. S • Xxxi. 7, And Elsewhere). [ark.] ...
Merodach Baladan
Merodach Baladan (nt:52 Trit;-m), Son Of Baladan, King Of Babylon,' Sent Letters And Gifts To Hezekiah, Ostensibly As An Embassy Of Con Gratulation On Hezekiah's Recovery From His Sick Ness (2 Kings Xx. 12, Where The Name Is Mis Written Beroa'ach B.; Is. Xxxix. 1; In 2 Chron. Xxxii. 3i ...
Merorim
Merorim (w-hn) Occurs In Two Places In Scripture, And Is In Both Translated Bitter Herbs In Our A. V., As Well As In Several Others (exod. Xii. 8 ; Num. Ix. Ii). The Word Merorim Is Uni Versally Acknowledged To Signify Bitter, And The Word Herbs Has Been Supplied To ...
Mesech
Mesech And Meshech Flt ; And Mosoch), The Sixth Son Of Japheth, And Founder Of An Ancient Nation (gen. X. 2; R Chron. I. 5). Hislposterity Is Not Mentioned In Either Genesis Or Chronicles; But The Nation Is Evidently Alluded To In Ps. Cxx. 5, In Conjunction With Kedar, Apparently ...
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia (metratrora.tla), The District Lying Between The Rivers Tigris And Euphrates, And Deriving Its Name From This Circumstance (arrian, Alex., Vii. 7; Tacit. Ann., Vi. 37). Its Limits Seem To Have Varied At Different Periods, Or The Name Was Vaguely Used So As To Be Applied To Different Extents Of ...
Messias Messiah
Messiah, Messias. The Hebrew Word. N409 Is In Every Instance Of Its Use (thirty-nine Times) Rendered In The Sept. By The Suitable Term Xplar6s, Which Becomes So Illustrious In The N. T. As The Official Designation Of The Holy Saviour. It Is A Verbal Noun (see Simonis, Arcanum Form. .11ebr. ...
Metals
Metals. The Principal Metals Are In This Work Considered Separately Under Their Several Names ; And A Few General Observations Alone Are Necessary In This Place. The Mountains Of Palestine Contained Metals, Nor Were The Hebrews Ignorant Of The Fact (dent. Viii. 9) ; But They Do Not Appear To ...
Metheg Ammah
Metheg-ammah (rinnr) 1.1?:). In The A.v. Of 2 Sam. Viii. I We Read, David Took Metheg-,4mwzah Out Of The Hand Of The Philis Tines ; ' But In The Margin Instead Of Metheg Ammah ' Is The Bridle Of Ammah.' It Seems Most Probable That The Sacred Writer Did Not ...
Mezuza
Mezuza, Pl. Mezuzoth (nntn, Mnin), The Place On Which The Mosaic Law Enjoins The Israel Ites To Write Passages Of Scriptures, Dent. Vt. 9 , Xi. 20. I. Simification Of The Word, And Design Of The Injunction.---the Word Rim (from 11l, To Push About, To Move) Denotes Either That Which ...
Michael
Michael Krp, (who As God? Sept. Mryojx). This, Which Seems To Have Been A Mon Name Among The Jews (comp. Num. Xiii. 13 ; Chron. V. 13, 14 ; Vi. 4o ; Vii. 3 ; Viii. 16 ; Xii. 20 ; Xxvii. 18 ; 2 Chron. Xxi. 2, 4 ; ...
Michaiah
Michaiah (rov*orrzt; Sept. Mixalas, Mixato ; Alex. Mixa/a, Maa'xcl), The Same Name As Micaiah And As Micah Or Micha. Of The Six Persons Called Michaiah In The A. V., Two Are Elsewhere Called Micah—viz., The Father Of Achbor (2 Kings Xxii. 12 ; Comp. 2 Chron. Xxxiv. 2o) And The ...
Michmethah
Michmethah Crimm1; Sept. 'ikaa,u6p, Anxaini9- ; Alex. Maxs-la- ; Machmethath), A Town On The Northern Border Of Ephraim ( Josh. Xvi. 6). In Defining The Boundaries Of Manasseh Joshua Says Of Michmethah That It Is Before, Or In The Face Of; Shechem' (nnty +nil/ Xvii. 7), Which May Mean Either ...
Midian
Midian Strife Masta,u; Madian), The Name Of Abraham's Fourth Son By Keturah, And Of A Powerful And Celebrated Nation That Sprung From Him (gen. Xxv. 2 ; Num. Xxii.) The Gentile Noun Is ':"11: (num. X. 29; Mascan(rns), Fern. The Plural (maampirac And Maattivaiot) Is Used A Few Times (gen. ...
Midrasii
Midrasii (t;','.'m), Plural Midrastrim, Mid Rashoth (vurrin, Murrin), The Most Ancient Jewish Exposition Of The Hebrew Scriptures. T. Title And Its Signification, Etc. The Term Nin, Which Is Strangely Rendered In The Text Of The A. V. By Story (2 Chron. Xiii. 22 ; Xxiv. 27), Is The Aramaic Infinitive ...
Migdal El
Migdal-el Tower Of God ;' Me Yaxaapitc ; 31a-yaanai ; Magdale1), One Of The Fenced Cities' Of Naphtali, Mentioned Only In Josh. Xix. 38. No Indication Of Its Geographical Position Is Given, And The Name Migdal Was, And Still Is, Very Common In Palestine. The Territory Of Naphtali Unquestionably Included ...
Migron
Migron (pan, A Precipice ;' Ma-yadw; In Is. X. 28, Mary€36 ; Alex. Ma-yend, ; Lliagron). In Describing The Romantic And Successful Attack Of Jonathan Upon The Philistine Host At Michmash, The Sacred Historian States That When It Was Made, Saul Tarried In The Uttermost Part Of Gibeah (or On ...
Milcait
Milcait (r1zu ; Sept. Mexxd). 1. The Daughter Of Harare, Sister Of Lot, And Wife Of Her Uncle Nahor, Abraham's Brother (gen. Xi. 29). Of Her Eight Children The Youngest, Bethuel, Was The Father Of Rebekah (gen. Xxii. 22, 23 ; Xxiv. Is). 2. The Fourth Daughter Of Zelophehad (num. ...
Miletus
Miletus (mf)tnros.), A City And Seaport Of Ionia In Asia Minor, About Thirty-six Miles South Of Ephesus. St. Paul Touched At This Port On His Voyage From Greece To Syria, And Delivered To The Elders Of Ephesus, Who Had Come To Meet Him There, A Remarkable And Affecting Address (acts ...
Milk
Milk. The Hebrew Word For Milk, Thalab, Is From The Same Root As 1-1, Theleb, Fat Ness,' And Is Properly Restricted To New Milk, There Being A Distinct Term, Rinnti, Chemah, For Milk When Curdled. Milk, And The Preparations From It, Butter And Cheese, Are Often Mentioned In Scrip Ture. ...
Mill
Mill, John, D.d., Was Born At Shap In Westmoreland, About 1645, And Died June 23, 1707. He Entered As Servitor At Queen's College, Oxford, In 1661 ; Took His Degree Of B.a. In 1666 ; His Master's Degree In 1669 ; And Was Soon Afterwards Chosen Fellow And Tutor Of ...
Minister
Minister, One Who Acts As The Less (from Minus Or Minor) Or Inferior Agent, In Obedience Or Subservience To Another, Or Who Serves, Officiates, Etc., As Distinguished From The Master, Magister (from Mewls), Or Superior. The Words So Trans Lated In The O. T. Are Nnein And R6n (chald.), And ...
Minstrel
Minstrel. The English Word Minstrel Re Presents The French Word Minestral, Which Is Itself A Diminutive Of Ministre, And Is Applied To The Class Of Persons Who Administered To The Amusement Of Their Patrons By Their Skill In Music And Poetry. Chaucer Uses The Word Minister In The Sense Of ...
Miracles
Miracles. Three Words Are Employed In The N. T. To Denote, From Different Points Of View, The Supernatural Works Performed By Christ And His Apostles — Rgpara, Properly Translated Miracles Or Wonders ; Signs; And Oupdaets, Powers Or Mighty Works. Sometimes All Three Are Used In Conjunction ; As By ...
Mishor
Mishor Oici+mr; ; Mcathp ,,, Alex. P ; Also Reaunj ; Planities And Eampestria ; A. V., Me Plain). This Word Is Applied In Scripture To Any Plain Or Level Tract Of Land, As In I Kings Xx. 23, And 2 Chron. Xxvi. So ; But In A Number Of ...
Misrephoth Maim
Misrephoth-maim Own-rinvn ; Pthp ; Alex. Mao-pcoia. Mac(u, In Josh. Xi. 8 ; But Mao-zpe9 Mc,u0coicala ; Alex. Macepeq5thb--,t.a(p., Ix Xiii. 6 ; Ague Maserephoth), A Place Mentioned Only By Joshua, First, In Describing His Victory Over The Canaanites, Who Had Arrayed Themselves Against Him At The Waters Of Merom ...
Miti
Miti, The Whole Code =71111v1, Evronat, Moral • Precepts ; And The Ceremonial Laws ; And D'onelpri, The Judicial Or Political Ordinances (see Scott On Deut. Vi. S) ; But This We Fear Cannot Be Substantiated. The Triads Are Not Expressed Always In The Same Terms, And The Interchanges Which ...
Moabites
Moabites, A Tribe Descended From Moab The Son Of Lot, And Consequently Related To The He Brews (gen. Xix. 37). Previous To The Exodus Of The Latter From Egypt, The Former, After Expelling The Original Inhabitants, Called Emints (gen. Xiv. 5 ; Deut. Ii. Ii), Had Possessed Them Selves Of ...
Mocha
Mocha Viriln '1) Of Palestine Or Tiberias, Flourished Circa A. D. 570. Very Little Is Known About The Personal History Of This Remarkable Scholar, Who Immortalised His Name By Fixing And Amplifying, Or, As Some Will Have It, By Inventing The Interlineary System Of Vocalization Kcvc, (ririnn), Called The Tiberian ...
Modin Mae
Modin (mae& ; Alex. Mceseeiv, And Mwoccip.; Media), The Native City Of The Maccabees. It Is Not Mentioned In The Canonical Scriptures; But It Occupied A Distinguished Place In Jewish History During The Rule Of The Asmonean Family. This Family Was Of The Noblest Blood Of The Priests (1 Maccab. ...
Moitow
Moitow. Among The Many Advantages Secured To Pos Terity By This Interesting And Admirable Narrative Regarding The Patriarch Joseph, Is An Intimate Ac Quaintance (so Far As It Goes) With The State, At The Time To Which It Refers, Of Civilization In Egypt. In The Part At Which We Are ...
Moladah
Moladah Birth Moaa8a, Iiaaasd ; Alex. Mactaci ; Mcaasa ; Molada), A City Grouped With Kedesh, Beersheba, And Others, Which Were Situated On The Extreme South Of Judah, Near The Borders Of Edom (josh. Xv. 21-26). It Was Afterwards Assigned With Beersheba To The Tribe Of Simeon (xix. 2), And ...
Molten Sea
Sea, Molten (pyln Tv. The Immense Brazen Reservoir Sthich, With Smaller Lavers [laven], Stood In The Court Of Solomon's Temple, Was Thus, By Hyperbole, Denominated. It Was Of A Hemi Spherical Figure, Ten Cubits In Width, Five Deep, And Thirty In Circumference. In Kings Vii. 26 It Is Stated To ...
Money Changers
Money-changers. It Is Mentioned By Volney, That In Syria, Egypt, And Turkey, When Any Considerable Payments Are To Be Made, An Agent Of Exchange Is Sent For, Who Counts Paras By Thousands, Rejects Pieces Of False Money, And Weighs All The Sequins, Either Separately Or To Gether. It Has Hence ...
Months
Months. It Is Proposed To Comprise, Under This Head, Some Observations Which May Be Con Sidered Supplementary To The Articles On The Sepa Rate Months, And Subordinate To That On The Year. For This End It Is Expedient To Distinguish Three Periods In The Jewish Mode Of Denoting Dates By ...
Mordecai Levison
Levison, Mordecai Gumpel, A Learned Jewish Physician And Commentator, And Fellow Student Of The Celebrated Philosopher Moses Men Delssohn In Berlin. He Afterwards Came Over To London And Was Physician In One Of The Hospitals (179o), Was Then Nominated By Gustavus Iii. Of Sweden To The Professional Chair In Hpsal, ...
Moreh
Moreh (rnin, 'a Teacher'). I. The Name Of An Oak Or Grove Of Oaks At Shechem, In Central Palestine. We Read In Gen. Xii. 6 That When Abraham First Entered Canaan He Passed Through The ]and Unto The Place Of Sichem, Unto The ,plain Of Moreh.' In Hebrew The Last ...
Moresheth Gath
Moresheth-gath (ro Neinin; 'the Pos Session Of Gath,' Or Of The Wine-press ;' Ins Kxnpo Poplas Pa- ; Ad Luereditatem Geth). The Prophet Micah, In Pronouncing Judgment Upon The Land Of Israel On Account Of Sin, Enumerates Certain Cities On Which Special Punishment Should Fall ; And Among These Are ...
Moriah
Moriah. The Name Occurs Twice In O. T. (gen. Xxii. 2 ; 2 Chron. Iii. R). In The First Place It Is Given To The Land,' To The Vlace' Of The Sacri Fice Of Isaac ; In The Second, To The Mountain' On Which The Temple Of Solomon Was Built. ...
Morinus
Morinus, Joannes (morin, Jean), The Author Of Several Works Of Biblical Interest, Was Born At Blois In 1591. He Was Educated In The Pro Testant Faith, And Studied At Leyden. In 1618 He Renounced Protestantism, And Entered The Con Gregation Of The Oratory, Then Recently Established. He Held For Some ...
Mortar
Mortar From The Unused Root In,to Boil Up, Hence A Pot), First Mentioned As Em Ployed By The Israelites In The Wilderness (num. Xi. 8), The People Went About And Gathered It (manna), And Ground It In Mills, And Beat It In A Mortar, And Baked It,' Etc. In This ...
Mortar_2
Mortar. (r. Inh ; 7rrix6s ; Cementum ; Gen. Xi. 3 ; Exod. I. 14 ; Is. Xli. 25 ; Nah. Iii. 54). 2. 1w; ; Htetint; Lev. Xiv. 42, 45. 3. .;11 ; /utum ; Ezek. Xiii. To, It, 14, 15 ; Xxii. ; Derived From The Arabic, And ...
Moses
Moses Mwo-i3s), The Lawgiver Of Israel, Belonged To The Tribe Of Levi, And Was A Son Of Amram And Jochebed (exod, Vi. 20). His Brother Aaron And His Sister Miriam, Both His Seniors, Constituted The Other Members Of The Family. According To Exod. Ii. So, The Name Nejo Means Drawn ...
Moses Ha Cohen Gikatilla
Gikatilla, Moses Ha-cohen, B. Samuel, Also Called Ibn Gikatilla, Of Cordova, Flourished About A.d. 1070 To I Too, And Was A Pupil Of The Celebrated Ibn Ganach, Whose Liberal Spirit He Largely Imbibed In His Expositions Of Scripture. Though M. Gikatilla Was One Of The Most Extensive Commentators And Grammarians, ...
Moses Maimonides
Maimonides, Moses, Also Called By The Jews Rambam, From The Initial Letters =ni P:pp 11 110:1 'i, R. Moses B. Maimun, And By The Arabians Am Amram Musa B. Maimun Obeid Allah, Was Born At Cordova, March 3oth, 1135. This Great Luminary, The Glory Of Israel, The Second Moses, The ...
Moses Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn, Moses, Also Called Ram Ban (rnzni), From The Initials Of ?t.= P R. Moses B. Menachem Mendal And Moses Dessau, Was Born Sept. 6, 1729. His Early Life Was Spent Amid Circumstances Of Extreme Penury, Ap Proaching At Times To The Verge Of Destitution ; But In Spite Of ...
Moses Piiilippsohn
Piiilippsohn, Moses, Was Born May 9, 1775, In Sandersleben, A Small Town On The Wip Per, And Was Destined For A Rabbinate By His Parents, Who Began To Initiate Him Into Hebrew When He Was Scarcely Four Years Of Age. In 1787 He Was Sent To A Rabbinic School At ...
Moses R Simeon Frankfurter
Frankfurter, Moses R. Simeon. This Distinguished Hebraist Flourished Between 170c And 1762, Was Judge Of The Jewish Community, And A Celebrated Typographer In Amsterdam, And Wrote Glosses On The Pentateuch, Which He Called Mnp Rimn, A Small Offering ; On Joshua, Judges, And 2 Samuel, And 2 Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, ...
Mother
Mother. The Hebrew Word For Mother Is Nt3, Am, And Is Regarded By The Lexicographers As A Primitive, Imitating The Earliest Lisping Of An Infant : They Compare It With The Greek Acduna, Nct,thp.th Pea; Sanscrit, Md, Ambd ; Copt., Man ; English And French, Mama ; German, Amaze, (nurse), ...
Mount Jearim
Jearim, Mount (n+v-iri, The Mount Of Thickets ;' Sept. 76xty'laply ; Alex. 'iapf,u ; Mortis Jarinz), One Of The Landmarks On The Northern Bor Der Of Judah :— The Border Compassed From Baalah Westward Unto Mount Seir, And Passed Along Unto The Side Of 1wount Yearim, Which Is Chesalon, And ...
Mount Nebo
Nebo, Mount Spas Mons Nebo). This Celebrated Mountain Is Mentioned Only Three Times In Scripture, And As Each Is Topo Graphically Important It May Be Well To Cite The Passages. In The General Itinerary Given In Num. Xxxiii. 47, It Is Said, They Removed From Almon Diblathaim, And Pitched In ...
Mount Perazim
Perazim, Mount Vy-e-lri, 'mountain Of Breaches ;' 6pos Cicr€11.27v ; Mans Divisionum). The Prophet Isaiah, In Warning The Israelites Of The Divine Vengeance About To Come Upon The Nation, And With Which They Did Not Seem Sufficiently Im Pressed, Refers To Exhibitions Of God's Wrath Ex Hibited In Their Past ...
Mount Of Olives
Olives, Mount Of, And Olivet (-in ; Lxx. And N. T., Rd Isposr&y ; But In Luke Xix. 29, .7-6 Spas 76 Txriiiv ; And Acts I. 12, Aalca'vos (olivet"); Mons Olizail Nm), The Well-known Hill, Or Rather Ridge, On The East Side Of Jerusalem, Separated From The City By ...
Mountains
Mountains. The Mountains Mentioned In Scripture Are Noticed Under Their Different Names, And A General Statement With Reference To The Mountains Of Palestine Is Given Under That Head. We Have Therefore In This Place Only To Notice More Fully Some Remarkable Symbolical Or Figura Tive Uses Of The Word In ...
Mourning
Mourning. This Head Embraces Both The Outward Expressions Of Sorrow For The Dead, Re Ferred To In The Scriptures, And Those Exnressions Which Were Intended To Exhibit Repentance, Etc. These Subjects Will Be Pursued According To Townsend's Chronological Arrangement, And Since They Nearly Approximate, Will Be Pursued Together. Assuming The ...
Mouth
Mouth (in). The Ordinary Applications Of This Word, Common To All Languages, Require No Explanation ; But The Following Somewhat Peculiar Uses May Be Noted : Heavy-mouthed,' That Is, Slow Of Speech, And So Translated In Exod. Iv. So ; `smooth Mouth' (prov. Xxvi. 28), That Is, A Flat Tering ...
Muppim
Muppim May0/2; .11.1ophim) Is Men .... Tioned In Gen. Xlvi. As As The Eighth Of The Ten Sons Of The Patriarch Benjamin. This Name Does Not Occur In The Other Passages Where Jacob's Family Are Enumerated (comp. Num. Xxvi. 38-41 ; I Chron. Vii. 6-12 ; Viii. 1-5). But Commentators, ...
Murder
Murder. The Sacredness Of Human Life, Arising Out Of The Fact That Man Was Made In The Image And Likeness Of God, Is Emphatically Pro. Claimed In Scripture ; And The Malicious Taking Away Of That Life Is Set Forth As A Crime Deserving The Last Punishment. So Deeply Rooted ...
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments ("lt Q77, Or Simply D'6, 6p-yava). It Is Less Difficult To Deter Mine The General Character Of The Hebrew Instru Ments Of Music, Than To Identify The Particular Instruments Which Are Named In The Hebrew Scriptures. We See Certain Instruments Different From Our Own In Use Among The ...