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Memphis in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mem'-fis: 1. Name: The ancient capital of Egypt, 12 miles South of the modern Cairo. This Greek and Roman form of the name was derived from the Coptic form Menfi (now Arabic Menf), the abbreviation of the Egyptian name Men-nofer, "the good haven." This name was applied to the pyramid of Pepy I, in the cemetery above the city; some have thought...

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Mahanaim Scripture - Joshua 13:30

And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in Bashan, threescore cities:...

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Mahanaim Scripture - Joshua 13:26

And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;...

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Melita in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The scene of Paul's shipwreck (Acts 27-28). Not the Melita now Meleda in the gulf of Venice near Dalmatia; but the Melita between Sicily and Africa, Malta, where tradition names the place of the wreck "Paul's bay" (Mr. Smith, of Jordan Hill, Shipwreck of Paul). After leaving Fair Havens in Crete, and while sailing along its S. coast, the wind ...

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Marah Scripture - Numbers 33:8

And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah....

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Media Scripture - Esther 10:2

And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?...

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Megiddo Scripture - Joshua 12:21

The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;...

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Memphis in Naves Topical Bible

Also called NOPH -A celebrated city of Egypt Ho 9:6 -Prophecies concerning Isa 19:13; Jer 2:16; 46:14,19; Eze 30:16...

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Megiddo in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(place of crowns) was in a very marked position on the southern rim of the plain of Esdraelon, on the frontier line of the territories of the tribes of Issachar and Manasseh, 6 miles from Mount Carmel and 11 from Nazareth. It commanded one of those passes from the north into the hill country which were of such critical importance on various oc...

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Mahanaim Scripture - 1 Chronicles 6:80

And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,...

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