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ME-JARKON #3247

1 A city in the territory of the tribe of Dan

Jos 19:46


MEAH #3248

1 A tower in Jerusalem

Ne 3:1; 12:39


MEAL #3249

1 See EATING

2 See FOOD


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

Mt 5:15; Mr 4:21; Lu 11:33

4 A cab, or kab, about two quarts

2Ki 6:25

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

Ho 3:2

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

Ex 16:16,18

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

Joh 2:6

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

Le 14:10,12,15,21,24

16.1 See WEIGHTS

17 LINEAR

18 A finger

Jer 52:21

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

21.1 See CUBIT

22 A reed, probably six cubits

Eze 40:5

23 A fathom

Ac 27:28

24 A pace

2Sa 6:13

25 A furlong

Lu 24:13

26 A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile

Mt 5:41

27 A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces

Ac 1:12

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

28.2 See INTEGRITY


MEAT OFFERING #3251

1 See OFFERINGS , MEAT


MEBUNNAI #3252

1 One of David's guards

2Sa 23:27


MECHANIC #3253

1 General scriptures concerning

Pr 8:30; 1Co 3:10

2 INSTANCES OF

2.1 Tubal-cain

Ge 4:22

2.2 Bezaleel

Ex 31:2-11; 35:30-35

2.3 Hiram

1Ki 7:13-50; 2Ch 2:13,14; 4:11-18

2.4 See ART


MEDAD #3254

1 One of the seventy elders who did not go to the tabernacle with Moses, but prophesied in the camp

Nu 11:26-29


MEDAN #3255

1 Son of Abraham and Keturah

Ge 25:2; 1Ch 1:32


MEDDLING #3256

1 See BUSYBODY

2 See TALE-BEARER


MEDEBA #3257

1 A city of Moab

Nu 21:30

2 An idolatrous "high place,"

Isa 15:2

3 Allotted to Reuben

Jos 13:9,16

4 David defeats an army and the Ammonites at

1Ch 19:7-15


MEDES #3258

1 Inhabitants of Media

2 Israelites distributed among, when carried to Assyria

2Ki 17:6; 18:11

3 Palace in the Bablonian province of

Ezr 6:2

4 An essential part of the Medo-Persian Empire

Es 1:1,19

5 Supremacy of, in the Chaldean Empire

Da 5:28,31; 9:1; 11:1


MEDIA #3259

1 See MEDES


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

2 See DISEASES

3 See PHYSICIAN


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

Ge 24:63


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

Ex 23:31

3 Sea of Joppa

Ezr 3:7

4 The hinder sea

Zec 14:8

5 The uttermost sea

De 11:24

6 The utmost sea

Joe 2:20


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

Ge 13:8

2.2 Isaac

Ge 26:20-22

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

Jud 8:2,3

2.5 Hannah

1Sa 1:13-16

2.6 Saul

1Sa 10:27

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

2Th 1:4

2.10 Job

Jas 5:11

2.11 The angel

Jude 1:9

2.12 For the meekness of Jesus, see below

2.13 See HUMILITY

2.14 See KINDNESS

2.15 See PATIENCE

3 OF JESUS

Isa 42:1-4; 53:7; Mt 12:19,20; 26:47-54

3.1 See JESUS , HUMILITY OF


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

Jos 17:11; 1Ch 7:29

3 Conquest of, by Joshua

Jos 12:21

4 Walled by Solomon

1Ki 9:15

5 Included in one or Solomon's commissary districts

1Ki 4:12

6 Ahaziah dies at

2Ki 9:27

7 Valley of, Deborah defeats Sisera in

Jud 5:19

8 Josiah killed at, by Pharaoh-nechoh

2Ki 23:29,30; 2Ch 35:22-24

9 Prophecy concerning

Zec 12:11


MEHETABEEL #3266

1 A person whose grandson tried to intimidate Nehemiah

Ne 6:10


MEHETABEL #3267

1 Wife of Hadar

Ge 36:39; 1Ch 1:50


MEHIDA #3268

1 A person whose descendants returned from Babylon

Ezr 2:52; Ne 7:54


MEHIR #3269

1 Son of Chelub

1Ch 4:11


MEHOLATHITE #3270

1 An inhabitant of a city in the territory of Issachar

1Sa 18:19; 2Sa 21:8


MEHUJAEL #3271

1 Son of Irad

Ge 4:18


MEHUMAN #3272

1 A chamberlain of Ahasuerus

Es 1:10


MEHUNIM #3273

1 Also called MEUNIM

2 A person whose descendants returned from exile

Ezr 2:50; Ne 7:52


MEKONAH #3274

1 A city in the territory of the tribe of Judah

Ne 11:28


MELATIAH #3275

1 A Gibeonite who assisted in repairing the wall of Jerusalem

Ne 3:7


MELCHESEDEC #3276

1 See MELCHIZEDEK


MELCHI #3277

1 Ancestor of Jesus

Lu 3:24

1.1 2. Remote ancestor of Jesus

Lu 3:28


MELCHISHUA #3278

1 Also called MALCHISHUA

2 Son of King Saul

1Sa 14:49; 31:2; 1Ch 8:33; 9:39; 10:2


MELCHIZEDEK #3279

1 King of Salem

Ge 14:18-20; Ps 110:4

2 A priest and type of Christ

Heb 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:1-21


MELECH #3280

1 Son of Micah

1Ch 8:35; 9:41


MELICU #3281

1 A priest

Ne 12:14


MELITA (MALTA) #3282

1 (An important island in the Mediterranean Sea)

2 Paul shipwrecked on the coast of

Ac 28:1-10


MELON #3283

1 General scriptures concerning

Nu 11:5


MELZAR #3284

1 The steward whom the prince of the eunuchs set over Daniel and the three Hebrew young men

Da 1:11-16


MEMORIAL #3285

1 The Passover

Ex 12:14

2 See PASSOVER

3 Firstborn set apart as a

Ex 13:12-16

4 The pot of manna

Ex 16:32-34

5 The Feast of Tabernacles

Le 23:43

6 Shoulder stones of the ephod

Ex 28:12

7 The Lord's Supper

Lu 22:19; 1Co 11:24-26

8 See PILLAR


MEMPHIS #3286

1 Also called NOPH

2 A celebrated city of Egypt

Ho 9:6

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

Es 1:14-21


MENAHEM #3288

1 King of Israel

2Ki 15:13-22


MENAN #3289

1 An ancestor of Jesus

Lu 3:31


MENE #3290

1 General scriptures concerning

Da 5:25,26


MENSES #3291

1 See MENSTRUATION


MENSTRUATION #3292

1 Law relating to

Le 15:19-30; 20:18; Eze 18:6

2 Cessation of, in old age

Ge 18:11

3 Immunities of women during

Ge 31:35

4 Of animals

Jer 2:24

5 Uncleanness of

Isa 30:22

6 FIGURATIVE

Isa 30:22; La 1:17; Eze 36:17


MEONENIM #3293

1 A place in Ephraim

Jud 9:37


MEONOTHAI #3294

1 Father of Ophrah

1Ch 4:14


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

2Sa 21:8,9

2 Son of Jonathan

2Sa 4:4

2.1 Called MERIB-BAAL

1Ch 8:34; 9:40

2.2 Was lame

2Sa 4:4

2.3 David entertains him at his table

2Sa 9:1-7; 21:7

2.4 Property restored to

2Sa 9:9,10

2.5 His ingratitude to David at the time of Absolom's usurpation

2Sa 16:1-4; 19:24-30

2.6 Property of, confiscated

2Sa 16:4; 19:29,30


MERAB #3297

1 Daughter of King Saul

1Sa 14:49

2 Betrothed to David by Saul

1Sa 18:17,18

3 But given to Adriel for a wife

1Sa 18:19


MERAIAH #3298

1 A priest

Ne 12:12


MERAIOTH #3299

1 A high priest of the line of Eleazar

1Ch 6:6,7,52; Ezr 7:3

1.1 Probably identical with the priest of same name in

1Ch 9:11; Ne 11:11

2 A priest in the time of Joiakim

Ne 12:15


MERARI #3300

1 Son of Levi

Ge 46:11

2 Head the Merarite Levites

Nu 3:17,33-35

3 See LEVITES


MERATHAIM #3301

1 Probably a poetical name for Chaldea

Jer 50:21


MERCENARIES #3302

1 See SOLDIERS


MERCHANDISE #3303

1 See COMMERCE


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

2 See COMMERCE


MERCURIUS #3305

1 (A pagan god; Mercury (to the Romans); Hermes (to the Greeks))

2 Paul taken for, in Lycaonia

Ac 14:11,12


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

2 See GOD , MERCY OF

3 See KINDNESS

4 INSTANCES OF

4.1 The prison keeper, to Joseph

Ge 39:21-23

4.2 Joshua to Rahab

Jos 6:25

4.3 The Israelites to the man of Beth-el

Jud 1:23-26

4.4 David to Saul

1Sa 24:10-13,17


MERCY-SEAT #3307

1 Description of

Ex 25:17-22

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

Ex 35:4-12

4 Made by Bezaleel

Ex 37:1,6-9

5 Sprinkled with blood

Le 16:14,15

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

7 In Solomon's temple

1Ch 28:11

8 See TABERNACLE


MERED #3308

1 Son of Ezra

1Ch 4:17,18


MEREMOTH #3309

1 A priest who was appointed to weigh and register gold and silver vessels brought to Jerusalem

Ezr 8:33; Ne 3:4,21

2 A Jew who divorced his Gentile wife after the captivity

Ezr 10:36

3 A priest who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

Ne 10:5; 12:3


MERES #3310

1 One of the princes of Persia

Es 1:14


MERIB-BAAL #3311

1 See MEPHIBOSHETH


MERIBAH #3312

1 A place in Rephidim, where Moses struck a rock and brought forth water

Ex 17:1-7

2 Meribah-kadesh, fountain in the desert of Zin

Nu 20:13,24


MERIT #3313

1 (Personal)

2 See GRACE


MERODACH #3314

1 A Babylonian idol

Jer 50:2


MERODACH-BALADAN #3315

1 Called BERODACH-BALADAN , King of Persia

2 Sends congratulatory letters and a present to Hezekiah

2Ki 20:12; Isa 39:1


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

Jos 11:5-7


MEROZ #3317

1 A place north of Mount Tabor

2 Deborah and Barak curse the inhabitants of, in their song of triumph

Jud 5:23


MESHA #3318

1 King of Moab

1.1 Tributary to Ahab

2Ki 3:4,5

2 Son of Caleb

1Ch 2:42

3 A place in possession of the Joktanites

Ge 10:30

4 A Benjamite

1Ch 8:9


MESHACH #3319

1 A name given by the chief eunuch to Mishael, one of the three Hebrew young men

Da 1:7; 2:49; 3:12-30


MESHECH #3320

1 Also called MESECH

1.1 Son of Japheth

Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5

2 Son of Shem

1Ch 1:17

3 A tribe

Ps 120:5

4 The Moschi

Eze 27:13; 32:26; 38:2,3


MESHELEMIAH #3321

1 A gatekeeper of the temple

1Ch 9:21; 26:1,2,9


MESHEZABEEL #3322

1 Ancestor of Meshullam

Ne 3:4

2 A person who sealed the covenant

Ne 10:21; 11:24


MESHILLEMITH #3323

1 A priest

1Ch 9:12


MESHILLEMOTH #3324

1 Father of an Ephramite who protested against the attempt of the Israelites to ensalve their captive brethren

2Ch 28:12,13

2 A priest

Ne 11:13


MESHOBAB #3325

1 A Simeonite

1Ch 4:34


MESHULLAM #3326

1 Grandfather of Shaphan

2Ki 22:3

2 A son of Zerubbabel

1Ch 3:19

3 A Gadite of Bashan

1Ch 5:13

4 Three Benjamites

1Ch 8:17; 9:7,8

5 An Aaronite

1Ch 9:11; Ne 11:11

6 A priest

1Ch 9:12

7 A Kohathite and overseer of the temple repairs

2Ch 34:12

8 A chief who returned with Ezra

Ezr 8:16

9 A returned exile

Ezr 10:15

10 Son of Bani who divorced his Gentile wife

Ezr 10:29

11 Two persons who rebuilt portions of the wall

Ne 3:4,6,30

12 A prince who stood by Ezra when he read the law to the people

Ne 8:4

13 Two priests who signed the covenant

Ne 10:7,20

14 A Benjamite

Ne 11:7

15 Two priests who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon

Ne 12:13,16,33

16 A Levite

Ne 12:25


MESHULLEMETH #3327

1 Wife of Manasseh and mother of Amon

2Ki 21:19


MESOPOTAMIA #3328

1 (The country between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River)

2 Abraham a native of

Ac 7:2

3 Nahor lived in

Ge 24:10

4 People who lived in, called Syrians

Ge 25:20

5 Balaam from

De 23:4

6 The people of Israel subjected to, eight years under the judgments of Gog

Jud 3:8

7 Delivered from, by Othniel

Jud 3:9,10

8 Chariots hired from, by the Ammonites

1Ch 19:6,7

9 People of, present at Pentecost

Ac 2:9

10 See BABYLON

11 See CHALDEA


MESSENGER #3329

1 FIGURATIVE

Hag 1:13; Mal 2:7; 3:1; 4:5,6; Mt 11:10; Mr 1:2; Lu 7:27

1.1 Of Satan

2Co 12:7


MESSIAH #3330

1 See JESUS


METAL #3331

1 See BRASS (copper)

2 See GOLD

3 See IRON

4 See LEAD

5 See SILVER

6 See TIN


METAPHOR #3332

1 Jesus spoke in

Mr 4:11

2 See PARABLES


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

Ge 7:8

2.2 Fire from heaven upon the cities of the plain

Ge 19:24,25

2.3 Plagues of hail, and thunder, and lightning in Egypt

Ex 9:22-29; Ps 78:17-23

2.4 The plague of darkness

Ex 10:22,23

2.5 The east wind that divided the Red Sea

Ex 14:21

2.6 That brought the quails

Nu 11:31,32; Ps 78:26-28

2.7 Pillar of cloud and fire

2.8 See PILLAR

2.9 Sun stood still

Jos 10:12,13

2.10 Dew on Gideon's fleece

Jud 6:36-40

2.11 Stars in their courses fought against Sisera

Jud 5:20

2.12 Stones from heaven

Jos 10:11

2.13 Fire from heaven at Elijah's command

2Ki 1:10-14

2.14 The whirlwind which carried Elijah to heaven

2Ki 2:1,11

2.15 The wind under God's control

Ps 107:25

2.16 The east wind

Ps 48:7

2.17 Rain, The formation of

Ps 135:6,7

2.18 Dew, copious

Ps 133:3

2.19 Rain in answer to Samuel's prayer

1Sa 12:16-18

2.20 Elijah's prayer

1Ki 18:41-45

2.21 Rain confuses the Philistine army

1Sa 7:10

2.22 Wind destroyed Job's children

Job 1:18,19

2.23 Darkness at the crucifixion

Mt 27:45; Lu 23:44,45

2.24 The autumnal weather on the Mediterranean

Ac 27:9-14,20

2.25 See ASTRONOMY

2.26 See DEW

2.27 See HAIL

2.28 See RAIN

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

1 A place in Philistia

2Sa 8:1


METHUSAEL #3335

1 Father of Lamech

Ge 4:18


METHUSELAH #3336

1 Son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah

Ge 5:21-27; 1Ch 1:3


MEZAHAB #3337

1 Grandfather of Mehetabel

Ge 36:39; 1Ch 1:50



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