mauzzim Summary and Overview

(fortresses). The marginal note to the Authorized Version of #Da 11:38| "the god of forces," gives as the equivalent of the last word "Mauzzim, or gods protectors, or munitions." There can be little doubt that mauzzim is to be taken in its literal sense of "fortresses," just as in #Da 11:19,39| "the god of fortresses" being then the deity who presided over strongholds. The opinion of Gesenius is that "the god of fortresses" was Jupiter Capitolinus, for whom Antiochus built a temple at Antioch. Liv. xli. 20.

MAUZ'ZIM (fortresses), in the margin of Dan 11:38, where the text has "god of forces." Its signification is uncertain, but it probably refers to the dedication by Antiochus Epiphanes of a temple in Antioch to Jupiter Capitolinus.

Margin, Daniel 11:38, "the god of forces," rather "of fortresses." The reference may be to the fact that Antiochus Epiphanes erected a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus at Antioch, and dedicated Jehovah's temple at Jerusalem to Jupiter Olympius (Livy 41:20; 2 Maccabees 6:2). Furst suggests Melkart the Hercules of Tyre, "the fortress" or "stronghold (ma'oz) of the sea." New Tyre was on a rock surrounded by the sea (Isaiah 23:4).