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Menahem in Hitchcock's Bible Names

comforter; who conducts them; preparation of heat...

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Mephibosheth in Easton's Bible Dictionary

exterminator of shame; i.e., of idols. (1.) The name of Saul's son by the concubine Rizpah (q.v.), the daughter of Aiah. He and his brother Armoni were with five others "hanged on a hill before the Lord" by the Gibeonites, and their bodies exposed in the sun for five months (2 Sam. 21:8-10). (2.) The son of Jonathan, and grandson of Saul ...

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Meraioth in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

me-ra'-yoth, me-ri'-oth (merayoth): The name varies much in the Greek. (1) A Levite, a descendant of Aaron (1 Ch 6:6 f; Ezr 7:3), called "Memeroth" in 1 Esdras 8:2; and "Marimoth" in 2 Esdras 1:2. (2) The son of Ahitub and father of Zadok (1 Ch 9:11). (3) A priestly house of which, in the days of Joiakim, Helkai was head (Neh 12:15). In Neh 12:...

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Melech in Smiths Bible Dictionary

the second son of Micah, the son of Merib-baal or Mephibosheth. 1Ch 8:35; 9:41...

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Memucan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

One of the seven princes who "saw the king's face and sat first in the kingdom" (Esther 1:13-14); "wise men who knew the times and law and judgment." Ahasuerus accordingly consulted them, "what shall we do unto Vashti according to law?" Memucan as president of the council owing to his wisdom and age, or else as an obsequious courtier knowing h...

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Meni in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

me'-ni: Destiny, a god of Good Luck, possibly the Pleiades (Isa 65:11 margin). See ASTROLOGY, 10; GAD....

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Mephibosheth in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Saul's son by Rizpah (2 Samuel 21:8); "crucified" (yaqah; not talah, which would mean "hanged up") with six others before Jehovah by the Gibeonites to avert the famine; from barley harvest until the rains of October the bodies remained exposed to the sun (compare Numbers 25:4), but watched by Rizpah's pious care, and finally were committed ...

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Meraioth in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A high priest of the line of Eleazar 1Ch 6:6,7,52; Ezr 7:3 Probably identical with the priest of same name in 1Ch 9:11; Ne 11:11 -2. A priest in the time of Joiakim Ne 12:15...

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Mehetabeel in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(favored of God), another and less correct form of Mehetabel. The ancestor of Shemaiah the prophet who was hired against Nehemiah by Tobiah and Sanballat. Ne 6:10...

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Mehujael in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

me-hu'-ja-el (mechuya'el, mechiya'el, "smitten of God"): A descendant of Cain through Enoch and Irad (Gen 4:18). The list in Gen 5:12 ff is a working-over of the same material of genealogy by another hand at a different date of spelling (compare spelling of Chaucer and that of today). In that ease, Mehalalel would be the correspondent name to ...

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