Merathaim

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Smith's Bible Dictionary [1]

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 [2]

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 [3]

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 [4]

mat marrati nar marratu  Jeremiah 50:21

Easton's Bible Dictionary [5]

 Jeremiah 50:21

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [6]

(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 [7]

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).

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