Bible Names H-M

Massa in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(burden), a son of Ishmael. Ge 26:14; 1Ch 1:30 His descendants were not improbably the Masani, placed by Ptolemy in the east of Arabia, near the borders of Babylonia....

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Mattan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a gift). 1. The priest of Baal slain before his altars in the idol temple at Jerusalem. 2Ki 11:18; 2Ch 23:17 He probably accompanied Athalia from Samaria. 2. The father of Shephatiah. Jer 38:1...

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Mattaniah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("gift of Jehovah".) 1. King Zedekiah's (Jehovah's justice) original name, changed when Nebuchadnezzar put him on the throne instead of his nephew Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:17). 2. 1 Chronicles 9:15-16, "keeper of the thresholds." Son of Micha or Michaiah (Nehemiah 11:27; Nehemiah 12:8; Nehemiah 12:28-29; Nehemiah 12:25; Nehemiah 12:35); lived...

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Matthan in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mat'-than (Textus Receptus Matthan, Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek Maththan): An ancestor of Jesus, grandfather of Joseph the husband of Mary (Mt 1:15). See MATTHAT....

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Massa in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a lifting up, gift, one of the sons of Ishmael, the founder of an Arabian tribe (Gen. 25:14); a nomad tribe inhabiting the Arabian desert toward Babylonia....

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Mattan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

gift. (1.) A priest of Baal, slain before his altar during the reformation under Jehoiada (2 Kings 11:18). (2.) The son of Eleazar, and father of Jacob, who was the father of Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary (Matt. 1:15). (3.) The father of Shephatiah (Jer. 38:1)....

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Matthan in Naves Topical Bible

-An ancestor of Jesus Mt 1:15...

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Massa in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:14). (See LEMUEL.) The Masani, placed by Ptolemy the geographer E. of Arabia, may have sprung from Massa....

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Mattan in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Baal's priest slain by Jehoiada "before the altars "judicially, at the reformation after Athaliah's idolatrous reign (2 Kings 11:18; 2 Chronicles 23:17). She probably had brought him from Samaria to introduce the Baal worship of her father Ahab into the court of Jehoram her husband, Jehoshaphat's son (2 Chronicles 21:6; 2 Chronicles 21:13)....

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