Magi,
MA'GI, a word of Median or Chaldaean origin, was the name of the sacerdotal caste which among the Medians, Persians, Chaldaeans, and other Eastern nations occupied an intermediate position of great i…
Magic
The Jews seem early to have consulted the teraphim (q.v.) for oracular answers (Judg. 18:5, 6; Zech. 10:2). There is a remarkable illustration of this divining by teraphim in Ezek. 21:19-22. We read …
Magic, Magicians
Magic is “the science or practice of evoking spirits, or educing the occult powers of nature to produce effects apparently supernatural.” It formed an essential element in many ancient religions, esp…
Magicians
Heb. hartumim, (dan. 1:20) were sacred scribes who acted as interpreters of omens, or “revealers of secret things.”
Magistrate
A public civil officer invested with authority. The Hebrew shophetim, or judges, were magistrates having authority in the land (Deut. 1:16, 17). In Judg. 18:7 the word “magistrate” (A.V.) is rendered…
Magog
Region of Gog, the second of the “sons” of Japheth (Gen. 10:2; 1 Chr. 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation, probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. They are…
Magor-missabib
Fear on every side, (Jer. 20:3), a symbolical name given to the priest Pashur, expressive of the fate announced by the prophet as about to come upon him. Pashur was to be carried to Babylon, and ther…
Magormissabib
(terror on every side), the name giver. by Jeremiah to Pashur the priest when he smote him and put him in the stocks for prophesying against the idolatry of Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 20:3)
Magpiash
(moth-killer) one of the heads of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:20) The same as Magbish in (Ezra 2:30)
Mahalah
(disease), one of the three children of Hammoleketh the sister of Gilead. (1 Chronicles 7:18)
Mahalaleel
Praise of God. (1.) The son of Cainan, of the line of Seth (Gen. 5:12-17); called Maleleel (Luke 3:37). (2.) Neh. 11:4, a descendant of Perez.
Mahalath Leannoth Maschil
This word leannoth seems to point to some kind of instrument unknown (Ps. 88, title). The whole phrase has by others been rendered, “On the sickness of affliction: a lesson;” or, “Concerning afflicti…
Mahalath Maschil
In the title of Ps. 53, denoting that this was a didactic psalm, to be sung to the accompaniment of the lute or guitar. Others regard this word “mahalath” as the name simply of an old air to which th…
Mahalath,
MA'HALATH, Ps 53 and MAHALATH-LEAN'NOTH, Ps 88, occurring only in the titles of these two Psalms, are by most commentators held to be the names of some musical instrument used in the performance of t…
Mahaleleel
praising God
Mahali
(sick), Mah’li, the son of Merari. (Exodus 6:19)
Mahanaim
Two camps, a place near the Jabbok, beyond Jordan, where Jacob was met by the “angels of God,” and where he divided his retinue into “two hosts” on his return from Padan-aram (Gen. 32:2). This name w…
Mahaneh-dan
Judg. 18:12 = “camp of Dan” 13:25 (R.V., “Mahaneh-dan”), a place behind (i.e., west of) Kirjath-jearim, where the six hundred Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol encamped on their way to capture the city …
Mahanehdan
(camp of Dan), spoken of as “behind Kirjath-jearim,” (Judges 18:12) and as between Zorah and Eshtaol.” ch. (Judges 13:25)
Mahanem
a comforter
Maharai
(impetuous), (2 Samuel 23:28; 1 Chronicles 11:30; 27:13) an inhabitant of Netophah in the tribe of Judah, and one of David’s captains.
Mahath
Grasping. (1.) A Kohathite Levite, father of Elkanah (1 Chr. 6:35). (2.) Another Kohathite Levite, of the time of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 29:12).
Mahavite
MA'HAVITE, the designation of Eliel, one of David's warriors, 1 Chr 11:46; of uncertain signification.
Mahavite, The
the designation of Eliel, one of the warriors of King David’s guard, whose name is preserved in the catalogue of (1 Chronicles 11:46) only.
Mahavites
declaring a message; marrow
Mahaz
an end; ending; growing hope
Mahazioth
Visions, a Kohathite Levite, chief of the twenty-third course of musicians (1 Chr. 25:4, 30).
Maher-shalal-hash-baz
Plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, (Isa. 8:1-3; comp. Zeph. 1:14), a name Isaiah was commanded first to write in large characters on a tablet, and afterwards to give as a symbolical name to a son that …
Mahershalalhashbaz
(i.e. hasten-booty speedspoil), whose name was given by divine direction to indicate that Damascus and Samaria were soon to be plundered by the king of Assyria. (Jeremiah 8:14)
Mahion
MAH'ION (sickly), one of the sons of Elimelech and Naomi, and the first husband of Ruth; died in the land of Moab. Ruth 1:2, 1 Chr 6:5; Ruth 4:9-10.