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Mearah <ref name="term_6086" /> | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32621" /> == | ||
<p> ''''' mḗ ''''' - ''''' ā´ra ''''' ( מערה , <i> ''''' me‛ārāh ''''' </i> ; omitted in the Septuagint): A town or district mentioned only in Joshua 13:4 , as belonging to the Zidonians. The name as it stands means "cave." If that is correct it may be represented by the modern village <i> '''''Mogheirı̄yeh''''' </i> , "little cave," not far from Sidon. Perhaps, however, we should find in the word the name of a [[Sidonian]] city, with the preposition מן , <i> '''''min''''' </i> , that has suffered change in transcription. [[Septuagint]] reads "from Gaza"; but Gaza is obviously too far to the South. </p> | Joshua 13:4 | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36614" /> == | |||
<p> ("cave".) Joshua 13:4. A town "beside (rather "belonging to") the Sidonians, which [[Israel]] failed to take possession of. Keil makes [[Mearah]] "the cave of Jezzin," E. of Sidon, in the steep of Lebanon, a hiding place of the [[Druses]] at the present time. But then one would expect the to precede. Reland suggests Meroth, the limit of [[Galilee]] on the W. (Josephus Ant. 2:20, section 6; 3:3, section 1.) </p> | |||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42350" /> == | |||
Joshua 13:4 | |||
== Hitchcock's Bible Names <ref name="term_46393" /> == | |||
== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48245" /> == | |||
<p> (See Joshua 13:4) It should seem to have been a cavern, or cave, as Mahar, a cavern. </p> | |||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52685" /> == | |||
<p> <strong> MEARAH. </strong> [[Mentioned]] amongst the districts of [[Palestine]] that had yet to be possessed ( Joshua 13:4 ). The text is doubtful. </p> | |||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67732" /> == | |||
<p> Place in the north of Canaan, mentioned by Joshua as a boundary of the land that had not then been possessed: it is called in the margin 'the cave.' Joshua 13:4 . Identified with <i> Mogheiriyeh, </i> 33 38' N, 35 26' E . </p> | |||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73985" /> == | |||
<p> Mea'rah. (a cave). A place named in Joshua 13:4 only. The word means in [[Hebrew]] a cave, and it is commonly assumed that the reference is to some remarkable cavern in the neighborhood of Zidon. </p> | |||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6086" /> == | |||
<p> ''''' mḗ ''''' - ''''' ā´ra ''''' ( מערה , <i> ''''' me‛ārāh ''''' </i> ; omitted in the Septuagint): A town or district mentioned only in Joshua 13:4 , as belonging to the Zidonians. The name as it stands means "cave." If that is correct it may be represented by the modern village <i> '''''Mogheirı̄yeh''''' </i> , "little cave," not far from Sidon. Perhaps, however, we should find in the word the name of a [[Sidonian]] city, with the preposition מן , <i> '''''min''''' </i> , that has suffered change in transcription. [[Septuagint]] reads "from Gaza"; but [[Gaza]] is obviously too far to the South. </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_50486" /> == | |||
<p> (Hebrews Mearah', מְעָרָה, a cave, as often; Sept. ἀπὸ Γάζης, apparently reading מֵעִזָּה from Gaza; Vulg. Maara), a place mentioned in Joshua 13:4 as situated in the northern edge of Palestine: "From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and [[Mearah]] that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek." Some find it in the town Marathos (Strabo, 16:753; Pliny, v. 17; Ptolemy, v. 15, 16). Most interpreters, following the [[Chaldee]] and [[Syriac]] (see the Critici Biblici, s.v.), are of the opinion that the term should rather be rendered as an appellative-the cave (Keil's Comment. ad loc.); but if a mere cave were intended, and not a place called Mearah, the name would surely have been preceded by the definite article, and would have stood as הִמְּעָרָה, "the cave." Besides, the scope of the passage shows that some place-either a city or district-must be meant. "Reland (Palaest. p. 896) suggests that Mearah may be the same with Meroth, a village named by [[Josephus]] (Ant. 3:3,1) as forming the limit of [[Galilee]] on the west (see also Ant. 2:20, 6), and which again may possibly have been connected with the waters of Merom. A village called el-Mughar is found in the mountains of Naphtali, some ten miles west of the northern extremity of the [[Sea]] of Galilee (Robinson, 3:79, 30; [[Van]] de Velde's Map), which may possibly represent an ancient Mearah." "About half-way between [[Tyre]] and Sidon. close to the shore, are the ruins of an ancient town; and in the neighboring cliffs are large numbers of caves and grottos hewn in the rock, and formerly used as tombs. Dr. Robinson suggested that this may be ‘ Mearah of the [[Sidonians]] (ii. 474). The ruins are now called ‘Adlan, but perhaps take that name from the village on the mountain-side." Ritter (Erdk. 17:10; also 16:8, 9), on the other hand, identifies Mearah, under the name Mughara, with the remarkable cavern (Rosenmiller, Alterth. II, 1:39 sq., 66) which the Crusaders fortified, and Which is described by [[William]] of Tyre (Histor. Hieros. 19:2, 11) as "a certain fortress of ours in the [[Sidonian]] territory, namely, an impregnable grotto, commonly called the [[Cave]] of Tyre (Cavea de Tyron)." It was afterwards the last retreat of the emir Fakhr ed-Din. The place is now also known as Shukif Tairun (Abulfeda, Table). Schultz is the first traveller who mentions it in modern days. .It is situated in the high cliff east of Sidon, between Jezim and Michmurhy (Van de Velde, Memoir, s.v.). (See [[Cave]]). </p> | |||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_32621"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/mearah Mearah from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_36614"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/mearah Mearah from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_42350"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/mearah Mearah from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_46393"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hitchcock-s-bible-names/mearah Mearah from Hitchcock's Bible Names]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_48245"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hawker-s-poor-man-s-concordance-and-dictionary/mearah Mearah from Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_52685"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/mearah Mearah from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_67732"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/mearah Mearah from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_73985"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/mearah Mearah from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_6086"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/mearah Mearah from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_6086"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/mearah Mearah from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_50486"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/mearah Mearah from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |||
</references> | </references> | ||
