Mash
And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash....
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Mash was a son of Aram according to Genesis 10:23....
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(= 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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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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(mash): Named in Gen 10:23 as one of the sons of Aramaic In
the parallel passage in 1 Ch 1:17 the name is given as
"Meshech" (meshekh), and the Septuagint (Mosoch) supports this
form in both passages. "Meshech," however, is a Japhetic name
(Gen 10:2), and "Mash" would seem to be the original reading.
It is probably to be identified with the Mo...
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(drawn out), one of the sons of Aram. Ge 10:23 In 1Ch 1:17
the name appears as Meshech. The name Mash is probably
represented by the Mons Masius of classical writers, a range
which forms the northern boundary of Mesopotamia, between the
Tigris and Euphrates....
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