HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H62
אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה
a.vel bet-ma.a.khah — Abel-beth-maachah
Abel Beth Maachah = "meadow of the house of Maachah" city in northern Israel near Beth Maachah
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Abel-beth-maachah
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H66
אַבֵל מַיִם
a.vel ma.yim — Abel-maim
Abel Maim = "meadow of waters" a city in northern Israel (perhaps Abel Beth Maachah) Another name of a.vel bet-ma.a.khah (אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה "Abel-beth-maachah" H0062)
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Meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in the tribe of Naphtali. It was a place of considerable strength and importance. It is called a “mother in Israel”, i.e., a metropolis (2 Sam. 20:19). It was besieged by Joab (2 Sam. 20:14), by Benhadad (1 Kings 15:20), and by Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 15:29) about B.C. 734. It is elsewhere called Abel-maim, meadow of the waters, (2 Chr. 16:4). Its site is occupied by the modern Abil or Abil-el-kamh, on a rising ground to the east of the brook Derdarah, which flows through the plain of Huleh into the Jordan, about 6 miles to the west-north-west of Dan.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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