ME-JARKON #3247
1 A city in the territory of the tribe of Dan
MEAH #3248
MEAL #3249
MEASURE #3250
1 (The following modern equivalents of ancient measurements are based upon the latest research, and are as correct as is possible at this time)
2 DRY
3 A bushel, about a peck
4 A cab, or kab, about two quarts
5 A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels
1Ki 4:22; 5:11; 2Ch 2:10; 27:5; Ezr 7:22
6 An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Ex 16:36; Le 5:11; 6:20; 19:36; Nu 5:15; 28:5; Jud 6:19; Ru 2:17; 1Sa 1:24; 17:17; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:10,11,13,24; 46:5,7,11,14; Am 8:5; Zec 5:6-10
7 A half-homer, about five and a half bushels
8 A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs
Le 27:16; Nu 11:32; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:11-14; Ho 3:2
9 An omer, about one bushel
10 A seah, about a peck and a half
Ge 18:6; 1Sa 25:18; 1Ki 18:32; 2Ki 7:1,16,18
11 A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah
Ex 29:40; Le 14:10,21; 23:13,17; 24:5; Nu 15:4,6,9; 28:9,12,13,20,21,29; 29:3,4,9,10,14,15
12 LIQUID
13 A bath, about eight gallons and a half
1Ki 7:26,38; 2Ch 2:10; 4:5; Ezr 7:22; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:10,11,14; Lu 16:6
14 A firkin, nearly nine gallons
15 A hin, about a gallon and a half
Ex 29:40; 30:24; Le 19:36; 23:13; Nu 15:4-10; 28:5,7,14; Eze 4:11
16 A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin
17 LINEAR
18 A finger
19 A handbreadth
Ex 25:25; 37:12; 1Ki 7:26; 2Ch 4:5; Ps 39:5; Eze 40:5,43; 43:13
20 A span
Ex 28:16; 1Sa 17:4; Isa 40:12; 48:13; La 2:20; Eze 43:13
21 A cubit, the length of a man's forearm
22 A reed, probably six cubits
23 A fathom
24 A pace
25 A furlong
26 A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile
27 A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces
28 MUST BE JUST
Le 19:35,36; De 25:13-16; Pr 11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23; Ho 12:7-9; Mic 6:10-12
28.1 See DISHONESTY
MEAT OFFERING #3251
MEBUNNAI #3252
MECHANIC #3253
1 General scriptures concerning
2 INSTANCES OF
2.1 Tubal-cain
2.2 Bezaleel
2.3 Hiram
1Ki 7:13-50; 2Ch 2:13,14; 4:11-18
MEDAD #3254
1 One of the seventy elders who did not go to the tabernacle with Moses, but prophesied in the camp
MEDAN #3255
MEDDLING #3256
2 See TALE-BEARER
MEDEBA #3257
2 An idolatrous "high place,"
4 David defeats an army and the Ammonites at
MEDES #3258
2 Israelites distributed among, when carried to Assyria
3 Palace in the Bablonian province of
4 An essential part of the Medo-Persian Empire
5 Supremacy of, in the Chaldean Empire
MEDIA #3259
MEDIATION #3260
1 See INTERCESSION
2 JESUS, MEDIATOR
MEDICINE #3261
1 General scriptures concerning
Pr 17:22; Isa 1:6; 38:21; Jer 8:22; 30:13; 46:11; 51:8,9; Eze 47:12; Lu 10:34; Re 22:2
MEDITATION #3262
1 General scriptures concerning
Jos 1:8; Ps 1:2; 4:4; 19:14; 39:3; 49:3; 63:5,6; 73:12-22; 77:10-12; 104:34; 119:11,15,16,23,48,55,59,78,97-99,148; 139:17,18; 143:5; 1Ti 4:13-15
2 INSTANCE OF
2.1 Isaac
MEDITERRANEAN SEA #3263
1 Mentioned in Scripture as "the Great Sea,"
Nu 34:6,7; Jos 1:4; 9:1; 15:12,47; 23:4; Eze 47:10,15,20; 48:28
2 Sea of the Philistines
4 The hinder sea
5 The uttermost sea
6 The utmost sea
MEEKNESS #3264
1 General scriptures concerning
Ps 22:26; 25:9; 37:11; 76:8,9; 147:6; 149:4; Pr 14:29; 15:1,18; 16:32; 17:1; 19:11; 20:3; 25:15; 29:8; Ec 7:8; 10:4; Isa 11:4; 29:19; La 3:28-30; Am 3:3; Zep 2:3; Mt 5:5,9,38-42; 11:29; 27:13,14; Mr 9:50; Lu 6:29; Ro 12:14,18; 14:19; 1Co 6:7; 7:15; 10:32; 13:4,5,7; 2Co 10:1; 13:11; Ga 5:22,23,26; 6:1; Eph 4:1,2; Php 2:14,15; Col 3:12,13; 1Th 5:14,15; 2Th 3:5; 1Ti 3:2,3; 6:11,12; 2Ti 2:24,25; Tit 2:2,9; 3:2; Heb 10:36; 12:14; Jas 1:4,19,21; 3:13,17,18; 1Pe 2:18-23; 3:4,11,15; 2Pe 1:5-7; Jude 1:9
2 INSTANCES OF
2.1 Abraham
2.2 Isaac
2.3 Moses
Ex 2:13; 14:13,14; 15:24; 16:7,8; 17:2; Nu 12:3; 16:4-11
2.4 Gideon
2.5 Hannah
2.6 Saul
2.7 David
1Sa 17:29; 2Sa 16:9-14; Ps 38:13,14; 120:5-7
2.8 Paul
Ac 21:20-26; 1Th 2:7; 2Ti 4:16
2.9 The Thessalonians
2.10 Job
2.11 The angel
2.12 For the meekness of Jesus, see below
3 OF JESUS
Isa 42:1-4; 53:7; Mt 12:19,20; 26:47-54
MEGIDDO #3265
1 Also called MEGIDDON , and probably ARMAGEDDON
2 A city in the territory of Issachar situated on the southern edge of the plain of Esdraelon
5 Included in one or Solomon's commissary districts
6 Ahaziah dies at
7 Valley of, Deborah defeats Sisera in
8 Josiah killed at, by Pharaoh-nechoh
9 Prophecy concerning
MEHETABEEL #3266
1 A person whose grandson tried to intimidate Nehemiah
MEHETABEL #3267
MEHIDA #3268
1 A person whose descendants returned from Babylon
MEHIR #3269
MEHOLATHITE #3270
1 An inhabitant of a city in the territory of Issachar
MEHUJAEL #3271
MEHUMAN #3272
MEHUNIM #3273
2 A person whose descendants returned from exile
MEKONAH #3274
1 A city in the territory of the tribe of Judah
MELATIAH #3275
1 A Gibeonite who assisted in repairing the wall of Jerusalem
MELCHESEDEC #3276
1 See MELCHIZEDEK
MELCHI #3277
1.1 2. Remote ancestor of Jesus
MELCHISHUA #3278
1 Also called MALCHISHUA
1Sa 14:49; 31:2; 1Ch 8:33; 9:39; 10:2
MELCHIZEDEK #3279
MELECH #3280
MELICU #3281
1 A priest
MELITA (MALTA) #3282
1 (An important island in the Mediterranean Sea)
2 Paul shipwrecked on the coast of
MELON #3283
1 General scriptures concerning
MELZAR #3284
1 The steward whom the prince of the eunuchs set over Daniel and the three Hebrew young men
MEMORIAL #3285
3 Firstborn set apart as a
4 The pot of manna
5 The Feast of Tabernacles
6 Shoulder stones of the ephod
MEMPHIS #3286
3 Prophecies concerning
Isa 19:13; Jer 2:16; 46:14,19; Eze 30:16
MEMUCAN #3287
1 One of the seven princes of Ahasuerus who counsels the king to divorce Queen Vashti
MENAHEM #3288
MENAN #3289
MENE #3290
1 General scriptures concerning
MENSES #3291
1 See MENSTRUATION
MENSTRUATION #3292
1 Law relating to
2 Cessation of, in old age
3 Immunities of women during
4 Of animals
5 Uncleanness of
6 FIGURATIVE
MEONENIM #3293
MEONOTHAI #3294
MEPHAATH #3295
1 A Levitical city in the territory of the tribe of Reuben
Jos 13:18; 21:37; 1Ch 6:79; Jer 48:21
MEPHIBOSHETH #3296
1 Son of Saul by Rizpah, whom David surrendered to the Gibeonites to be killed
2.1 Called MERIB-BAAL
2.2 Was lame
2.3 David entertains him at his table
2.4 Property restored to
2.5 His ingratitude to David at the time of Absolom's usurpation
2.6 Property of, confiscated
MERAB #3297
3 But given to Adriel for a wife
MERAIAH #3298
1 A priest
MERAIOTH #3299
1 A high priest of the line of Eleazar
1.1 Probably identical with the priest of same name in
2 A priest in the time of Joiakim
MERARI #3300
MERATHAIM #3301
1 Probably a poetical name for Chaldea
MERCENARIES #3302
MERCHANDISE #3303
MERCHANT #3304
1 General scriptures concerning
Ge 23:16; 37:28; 1Ki 10:15,28; 2Ch 9:14; Ne 3:32; 13:20; Job 41:6; So 3:6; Isa 23:2; 47:15; Eze 17:4; 27:13,17,21-36; 38:13; Ho 12:7; Na 3:16; Mt 13:45; Re 18:3,11,23
MERCURIUS #3305
1 (A pagan god; Mercury (to the Romans); Hermes (to the Greeks))
MERCY #3306
1 General scriptures concerning
2Sa 22:26; Ps 18:25; 37:25,26; 85:10; Pr 3:3,4; 11:17; 12:10; 14:21,22,31; 20:28; 21:21; Ho 4:1; 12:6; Mic 6:8; Mt 5:7; 23:23; Lu 6:36; Ro 12:8; Col 3:12,13; Jas 2:13
4 INSTANCES OF
4.1 The prison keeper, to Joseph
4.3 The Israelites to the man of Beth-el
MERCY-SEAT #3307
1 Description of
2 Placed on the ark of the testimony
Ex 26:34; 30:6; 31:7; 40:20; Heb 9:5
3 Materials of, to be a freewill offering
5 Sprinkled with blood
6 The shekinah upon
Ex 25:22; 30:6,36; Le 16:2; Nu 7:89; 17:4; 1Sa 4:4; 2Sa 6:2; 2Ki 19:15; 1Ch 13:6; Ps 80:1; 99:1; Isa 37:16; Heb 4:16
8 See TABERNACLE
MERED #3308
MEREMOTH #3309
1 A priest who was appointed to weigh and register gold and silver vessels brought to Jerusalem
2 A Jew who divorced his Gentile wife after the captivity
3 A priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
MERES #3310
1 One of the princes of Persia
MERIB-BAAL #3311
1 See MEPHIBOSHETH
MERIBAH #3312
1 A place in Rephidim, where Moses struck a rock and brought forth water
2 Meribah-kadesh, fountain in the desert of Zin
MERIT #3313
1 (Personal)
MERODACH #3314
1 A Babylonian idol
MERODACH-BALADAN #3315
1 Called BERODACH-BALADAN , King of Persia
2 Sends congratulatory letters and a present to Hezekiah
MEROM #3316
1 The district near the springs of the Jordan River
2 Joshua conquered the confederacy of kings under Jabin, king of Hazor, near
MEROZ #3317
1 A place north of Mount Tabor
2 Deborah and Barak curse the inhabitants of, in their song of triumph
MESHA #3318
3 A place in possession of the Joktanites
4 A Benjamite
MESHACH #3319
1 A name given by the chief eunuch to Mishael, one of the three Hebrew young men
MESHECH #3320
3 A tribe
MESHELEMIAH #3321
1 A gatekeeper of the temple
MESHEZABEEL #3322
2 A person who sealed the covenant
MESHILLEMITH #3323
1 A priest
MESHILLEMOTH #3324
1 Father of an Ephramite who protested against the attempt of the Israelites to ensalve their captive brethren
2 A priest
MESHOBAB #3325
1 A Simeonite
MESHULLAM #3326
2 A son of Zerubbabel
4 Three Benjamites
6 A priest
7 A Kohathite and overseer of the temple repairs
8 A chief who returned with Ezra
9 A returned exile
10 Son of Bani who divorced his Gentile wife
11 Two persons who rebuilt portions of the wall
12 A prince who stood by Ezra when he read the law to the people
13 Two priests who signed the covenant
14 A Benjamite
15 Two priests who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon
16 A Levite
MESHULLEMETH #3327
1 Wife of Manasseh and mother of Amon
MESOPOTAMIA #3328
1 (The country between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River)
2 Abraham a native of
3 Nahor lived in
4 People who lived in, called Syrians
5 Balaam from
6 The people of Israel subjected to, eight years under the judgments of Gog
8 Chariots hired from, by the Ammonites
9 People of, present at Pentecost
MESSENGER #3329
1 FIGURATIVE
Hag 1:13; Mal 2:7; 3:1; 4:5,6; Mt 11:10; Mr 1:2; Lu 7:27
MESSIAH #3330
METAL #3331
METAPHOR #3332
1 Jesus spoke in
METEOROLOGY AND CELESTIAL PHENOMENA #3333
1 General scriptures concerning
Ge 2:5,6; 27:39; Job 9:7; 26:7,8,11; 27:20,21; 28:24-27; 29:19; 36:27-33; 37:6-22; 38:8-11,22,24-29,31-35,37; Ps 18:8-15; 19:2-6; 29:3-10; 65:8-12; 104:2,3,7,13,19,20; 147:7,8; 148:7,8; Pr 25:23; 26:1; 30:4; Ec 1:6,7; 11:3; Isa 5:5,6; 13:13; 24:18; 50:3; Jer 4:11,12; 10:13; 51:16; Da 2:21; Ho 6:4; 8:7; 13:15; Joe 2:30,31; Am 9:6; Na 1:3; Mt 8:24-27; 16:2,3; 24:27,29; 27:45; Lu 8:24,25; 12:54-56; 21:25; 23:44,45; Joh 3:8; Ac 2:19,20; Jas 5:17,18; 2Pe 2:17; Jude 1:12; Re 6:12-14; 7:1; 8:5,7,10,12; 9:1,2; 11:6; 16:21
2 PHENOMENA OF
2.1 The deluge
2.2 Fire from heaven upon the cities of the plain
2.3 Plagues of hail, and thunder, and lightning in Egypt
2.4 The plague of darkness
2.5 The east wind that divided the Red Sea
2.6 That brought the quails
2.7 Pillar of cloud and fire
2.9 Sun stood still
2.11 Stars in their courses fought against Sisera
2.12 Stones from heaven
2.13 Fire from heaven at Elijah's command
2.14 The whirlwind which carried Elijah to heaven
2.15 The wind under God's control
2.16 The east wind
2.17 Rain, The formation of
2.18 Dew, copious
2.19 Rain in answer to Samuel's prayer
2.20 Elijah's prayer
2.21 Rain confuses the Philistine army
2.22 Wind destroyed Job's children
2.23 Darkness at the crucifixion
2.24 The autumnal weather on the Mediterranean
3 SYMBOLICAL
3.1 Used in the Revelation of John
Re 6:12-14; 7:1; 8:3-12; 9:1,2,17-19; 10:1-6; 11:6; 12:1-4,7-9; 14; 15:1-4; 16:8,17-21; 19:11-18; 20:11; 21:1
METHEG-AMMAH #3334
METHUSAEL #3335
METHUSELAH #3336
1 Son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah
MEZAHAB #3337