Merathaim

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Meratha'im. (Double Rebellion). The Land Of Merathaim . Alluding to the country of the Chaldeans, and to the double captivity, which it had inflicted on the nation of Israel.  Jeremiah 50:21.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Symbolical name given to the country of the Chaldeans, signifying 'double rebellion,' perhaps alluding to the double captivity of the Israelites by Chaldea.  Jeremiah 50:21 : cf.  Jeremiah 50:25 .

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

MERATHAIM (  Jeremiah 50:21 ). The term is an enigmatical one, and adapted so as to recall to a Heb. ear either ‘double rebellion’ or ‘double bitterness.’

Holman Bible Dictionary

mat marrati nar marratu  Jeremiah 50:21

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Jeremiah 50:21

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Meratha'yim, מְרָתִיַם , Double Rebellion ; Sept. Πικρῶς ,Vulg. Dominantes ), a name given to Babylon ( Jeremiah 50:21), symbolical of its intensely perverse character (see Henderson, Comment . ad loc.). The expression." the land of two dominations" seems especially to allude " to the double captivity which Chaldaea had inflicted on the. nation of Israel ( Jeremiah 50:21). This is the opinion of Gesenius, Furst, Michaelis ( Bibel Fui Ungelehrten ), etc., and in this sense the word is taken by the versions generally, excepting that of Junius and Tremellius, which the A.V. — as in other instances — has followed here."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mer - a - thā´im ( מרתים , merāthayı̄m "double rebellion"): A name used for Babylon in   Jeremiah 50:21 . According to Delitzsch it may be equivalent to the Babylonian Marratūn , i.e. land by the nar Marratu , "the bitter river" (Persian Gulf) = Southern Babylonia (OHL, under the word).