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3234
 MATTATHA 
 
 -An ancestor of Jesus
     LU 3:31 
 

3235
 MATTATHAH 
 
 -One of the family of Hashum
     EZR 10:33 
 

3236
 MATTATHIAS 
 
 -An ancestor of Jesus
     LU 3:25,26 
 

3237
 MATTENAI 
 
 -1. Two Israelites who put away (divorced) their Gentile wives
  after the captivity
     EZR 10:33,37 

 -2. A priest in the time of Joiakim
     NE 12:19 
 

3238
 MATTHAN 
 
 -An ancestor of Jesus
     MT 1:15 
 

3239
 MATTHAT 
 
 -1. Father of Heli, and ancestor of Joseph
     LU 3:24 

 -2. Father of Jorim, and ancestor of Joseph
     LU 3:29 
 

3240
 MATTHEW 
 
 -Also called LEVI
 -(A receiver of customs (taxes for the Romans))
 -Becomes a disciple of Jesus
     MT 9:9,10; 10:3; MR 2:14,15; 3:18; LU 5:27-29; 6:15; AC
    13 1:13 
 

3241
 MATTHIAS 
 
 -Surnamed JUSTUS
 -Chosen as an apostle in the place of Judas
     AC 1:15-26 
 

3242
 MATTITHIAH 
 
 -1, A Levite who had charge of the baked offerings
     1CH 9:31 

 -2. A Levite musician
     1CH 15:18,21; 16:5 

 -3. A chief of the fourteenth division (shift) of temple
  musicians
     1CH 25:3,21 

 -4. An Israelite who divorced his Gentile wife after the
  captivity
     EZR 10:43 

 -5. A prince who stood beside Ezra when he read the law aloud
  to the people
     NE 8:4 
 

3243
 MATTOCK 
 
 -General scriptures concerning
     1SA 13:20,21; ISA 7:25 
 

3244
 MAUL 
 
 -General scriptures concerning
     PR 25:18 
 

3245
 MAZZAROTH 
 
 -Probably signs of the zodiac, see
     Job 32 38:32 

 -See MUSIC
    ¯ 3466
 

3246
 MEAH 
 
 -A tower in Jerusalem
     NE 3:1; 12:39 
 

3247
 MEAL 
 
 -See EATING
    ¯ 1508

 -See FOOD
    ¯ 1861
 

3248
 MEASURE 

 -(The following modern equivalents of ancient measurements are
  based upon the latest research, and are as correct as is
  possible at this time)
 -DRY
 -1. A bushel, about a peck
     MT 5:15; MR 4:21; LU 11:33 

 -2. A cab, or kab, about two quarts
     2KI 6:25 

 -3. 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 

 -4. 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
    17 2:17; 1SA 1:24; 17:17; ISA 5:10; EZE 45:10,11,13,24;
    46:5,7,11,14; AM 8:5; Z6 EC 5:6-10 

 -5. A half-homer, about five and a half bushels
     HO 3:2 

 -6. 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 

 -7. An omer, about one bushel
     EX 16:16,18 

 -8. A seah, about a peck and a half
     GE 18:6; 1SA 25:18; 1KI 18:32; 2KI 7:1,16,18 

 -9. 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

 -LIQUID
 -1. A bath, about eight gallons and a half
     1KI 7:26,38; 2CH 2:10; 4:5; EZR 7:22; ISA 5:10; EZE
    10 45:10,11,14; LU 16:6 

 -2. A firkin, nearly nine gallons
     JOH 2:6 

 -3. 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 

 -4. A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin
     LE 14:10,12,15,21,24 
   .See WEIGHTS
      ¯ 5127

 -LINEAR
 -1. A finger
     JER 52:21 

 -2. A handbreadth
     EX 25:25; 37:12; 1KI 7:26; 2CH 4:5; PS 39:5; EZE 40:5,43;
    43:13 

 -3. A span
     EX 28:16; 1SA 17:4; ISA 40:12; 48:13; LA 2:20; EZE 43:13 

 -4. A cubit, the length of a man's forearm
   .See CUBIT
      ¯ 1288

 -5. A reed, probably six cubits
     EZE 40:5 

 -6. A fathom
     AC 27:28 

 -7. A pace
     2SA 6:13 

 -8. A furlong
     LU 24:13 

 -9. A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile
     MT 5:41 

 -10. A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces
     AC 1:12 

 -MUST BE JUST
     LE 19:35,36; DE 25:13-16; PR 11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23; HO
    7 12:7-9; MIC 6:10-12 
   .See DISHONESTY
      ¯ 1431
   .See INTEGRITY
      ¯ 2529
 

3249
 MEAT OFFERING 
 
 -See OFFERINGS, MEAT
    ¯ 3632
 

3250
 MEBUNNAI 
 
 -One of David's guards
     2SA 23:27 
 

3251
 MECHANIC 
 
 -General scriptures concerning
     PR 8:30; 1CO 3:10 

 -INSTANCES OF
   .Tubal-cain
       GE 4:22 
   .Bezaleel
       EX 31:2-11; 35:30-35 
   .Hiram
       1KI 7:13-50; 2CH 2:13,14; 4:11-18 
   .See ART
      ¯ 0409
 

3252
 MEDAD 
 
 -One of the seventy elders who did not go to the tabernacle
  with Moses, but prophesied in the camp
     NU 11:26-29 
 

3253
 MEDAN 
 
 -Son of Abraham and Keturah
     GE 25:2; 1CH 1:32 
 

3254
 MEDDLING 
 
 -See BUSYBODY
    ¯ 0923

 -See TALE-BEARER
    ¯ 4799
 

3255
 MEDEBA 
 
 -A city of Moab
     NU 21:30 

 -An idolatrous "high place,"
     ISA 15:2 

 -Allotted to Reuben
     JOS 13:9,16 

 -David defeats an army and the Ammonites at
     1CH 19:7-15 
 

3256
 MEDES 
 
 -Inhabitants of Media
 -Israelites distributed among, when carried to Assyria
     2KI 17:6; 18:11 

 -Palace in the Bablonian province of
     EZR 6:2 

 -An essential part of the Medo-Persian Empire
     ES 1:1,19 

 -Supremacy of, in the Chaldean Empire
     DA 5:28,31; 9:1; 11:1 
 

3257
 MEDIA 
 
 -See MEDES
    ¯ 3256
 

3258
 MEDIATION 
 
 -See INTERCESSION
    ¯ 2531

 -JESUS, MEDIATOR
 

3259
 MEDICINE 
 
 -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 

 -See DISEASES
    ¯ 1428

 -See PHYSICIAN
    ¯ 3858
 

3260
 MEDITATION 
 
 -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 

 -INSTANCE OF
   .Isaac
       GE 24:63 
 

3261
 MEDITERRANEAN SEA 

 -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 

 -Sea of the Philistines
     EX 23:31 

 -Sea of Joppa
     EZR 3:7 

 -The hinder sea
     Z8 EC 14:8 

 -The uttermost sea
     DE 11:24 

 -The utmost sea
     JOE 2:20 
 

3262
 MEEKNESS 
 
 -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 5:5,9,38-42; 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
    22 5:22,23,26; 6:1; EPH 4:1,2; PHP 2:14,15; COL 3:12,13; 1TH
    14 5:14,15; 2TH 3:5; 1TI 3:2,3; 6:11,12; 2TI 2:24,25; TIT
    2 2:2,9; 3:2; HEB 10:36; 12:14; JAS 4 1:4,19,21; 3:13,17,18; 1PE
    18 2:18-23; 3:4,11,15; 2PE 1:5-7; Jude 9 1:9 

 -INSTANCES OF
   .Abraham
       GE 13:8 
   .Isaac
       GE 26:20-22 
   .Moses
       EX 2:13; 14:13,14; 15:24; 16:7,8; 17:2; NU 12:3; 16:4-11 
   .Gideon
       JUD 8:2,3 
   .Hannah
       1SA 1:13-16 
   .Saul
       1SA 10:27 
   .David
       1SA 17:29; 2SA 16:9-14; PS 38:13,14; 120:5-7 
   .Paul
       AC 21:20-26; 1TH 2:7; 2TI 4:16 
   .The Thessalonians
       2TH 1:4 
   .Job
       JAS 11 5:11 
   .The angel
       Jude 9 1:9 
   .For the meekness of Jesus, see below
   .See HUMILITY
      ¯ 2417
   .See KINDNESS
      ¯ 2932
   .See PATIENCE
      ¯ 3755

 -OF JESUS
     ISA 42:1-4; 53:7; MT 12:19,20; 26:47-54 
   .See JESUS, HUMILITY OF
      ¯ 2780
 

3263
 MEGIDDO 
 
 -Also called MEGIDDON, and probably ARMAGEDDON
 -A city in the territory of Issachar situated on the southern
  edge of the plain of Esdraelon
     JOS 17:11; 1CH 7:29 

 -Conquest of, by Joshua
     JOS 12:21 

 -Walled by Solomon
     1KI 9:15 

 -Included in one or Solomon's commissary districts
     1KI 4:12 

 -Ahaziah dies at
     2KI 9:27 

 -Valley of, Deborah defeats Sisera in
     JUD 5:19 

 -Josiah killed at, by Pharaoh-nechoh
     2KI 23:29,30; 2CH 35:22-24 

 -Prophecy concerning
     Z11 EC 12:11 
 

3264
 MEHETABEEL 
 
 -A person whose grandson tried to intimidate Nehemiah
     NE 6:10 
 

3265
 MEHETABEL 
 
 -Wife of Hadar
     GE 36:39; 1CH 1:50 
 

3266
 MEHIDA 
 
 -A person whose descendants returned from Babylon
     EZR 2:52; NE 7:54 
 

3267
 MEHIR 
 
 -Son of Chelub
     1CH 4:11 
 

3268
 MEHOLATHITE 
 
 -An inhabitant of a city in the territory of Issachar
     1SA 18:19; 2SA 21:8 
 

3269
 MEHUJAEL 
 
 -Son of Irad
     GE 4:18 
 

3270
 MEHUMAN 
 
 -A chamberlain of Ahasuerus
     ES 1:10 
 

3271
 MEHUNIM 
 
 -Also called MEUNIM
 -A person whose descendants returned from exile
     EZR 2:50; NE 7:52 
 

3272
 ME-JARKON 
 
 -A city in the territory of the tribe of Dan
     JOS 19:46 
 

3273
 MEKONAH 
 
 -A city in the territory of the tribe of Judah
     NE 11:28 
 

3274
 MELATIAH 
 
 -A Gibeonite who assisted in repairing the wall of Jerusalem
     NE 3:7 
 

3275
 MELCHI 
 
 -1. Ancestor of Jesus
     LU 3:24 
   .2. Remote ancestor of Jesus
       LU 3:28 



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