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Manasseh in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("causing to forget".) Joseph's firstborn by Asenath, whose birth "made him forget all his toil and all (the sorrow he endured through) his father's house" (Genesis 41:51). Jacob adopted them as his own, though "horn in Egypt" and by an alien to Israel (Genesis 48:5; Genesis 48:9); "as Reuben and Simeon they shall be mine," i.e. patriarchal he...

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Maoch in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(oppression) the father of Achish king of Gath, with whom David took refuge. 1Sa 27:2...

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Mareshah in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A city of the tribe of Judah Jos 15:44; 2Ch 11:8; 14:9,10 Birthplace of Eliezer the prophet 2Ch 20:37 Prophecy concerning Mic 1:15 -2. Father of Hebron 1Ch 2:42 -3. A son of (or possibly a city) founded by, Laadah 1Ch 4:21...

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Mark in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the evangelist; "John whose surname was Mark" (Acts 12:12, 25). Mark (Marcus, Col. 4:10, etc.) was his Roman name, which gradually came to supersede his Jewish name John. He is called John in Acts 13:5, 13, and Mark in 15:39, 2 Tim. 4:11, etc. He was the son of Mary, a woman apparently of some means and influence, and was probably born in...

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Manaen in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(comforter) is mentioned in Ac 13:1 as one of the teachers and prophets in the church at Antioch at the time of the appointment of Saul and Barnabas as missionaries to the heathen. He is said to have been brought up with Herod Antipas. He was probably his foster-brother....

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Manasseh in Hitchcock's Bible Names

forgetfulness; he that is forgotten...

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Maoch in Easton's Bible Dictionary

compressed, the father of Achish, king of Gath (1 Sam. 27:2). Called also Maachah (1 Kings 2:39)....

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Mareshah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(crest of a hill), one of the cities of Judah in the low country. Jos 15:44 It was one of the cities fortified and garrisoned by Rehoboam after the rupture with the northern kingdom. 2Ch 11:8 Near it was fought the great battle between Asa and Zerah. 2Ch 14:9-12 It is mentioned once or twice in the history of the Maccabaean war of independence...

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Mark in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Townson conjectures that the young man introduced as fleeing and leaving his linen robe, fear overcoming shame (Mark 16:51- 52), was Mark himself, on the ground that otherwise we see no reason for its introduction, being unconnected with the context. If the young man was the writer, awakened out of sleep by the noise near his house of men proce...

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Malachi in Naves Topical Bible

-Last of the minor prophets Mal 1:1 -Reproves God's people for their impiety Mal 1; 2; 3:7-15 -Fortells the coming of the Messiah Mal 3:1-6 -The judgments on the wicked and consolations of the righteous Mal 4:1-3 -The coming of the forerunner of the Messiah Mal 4:4-6...

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