Bible Names H-M

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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Mattathias in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mat-a-thi'-as (Mattathias). The persons of this name in the Apocrypha are: (1) Mattathias the father of the Maccabees. See ASMONEANS; MACCABEES. (2) One of the 7 who stood on Ezra's right hand as he read the law (1 Esdras 9:43) = "Mattithiah" of Neh 8:4. (3) The son--probably the youngest (compare 1 Macc 16:2)--of Simon the Maccabean, treacherou...

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Matthan in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(gift), grandfather of Joseph the husband of the Virgin Mary. Mt 1:15...

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Mash in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(= Meshech 1 Chr. 1:17), one of the four sons of Aram, and the name of a tribe descended from him (Gen. 10:23) inhabiting some part probably of Mesopotamia. Some have supposed that they were the inhabitants of Mount Masius, the present Karja Baghlar, which forms part of the chain of Taurus....

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Mattathias in Naves Topical Bible

-An ancestor of Jesus Lu 3:25,26...

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Matthan in Easton's Bible Dictionary

gift, one of our Lord's ancestry (Matt. 1:15)....

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Mash in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of Aram, Shem's son (Genesis 10:28). Josephus (Ant. 1:6) says, "Mash founded the Mesanaeans," i.e. the inhabitants of Mesene near Bassera where the Tigris and Euphrates fall into the Persian gulf; this however seems too far from the other Aramaic settlements. Gesenius identifies the descendants of Mash with the inhabitants of Mount Masius,...

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Mathusala in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ma-thu'-sa-la (Mathousala): Greek form of "Methuselah," the Revised Version (British and American) (Lk 3:37 the King James Version)....

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