§ Maon or Maonites = "habitation" a city of Judah located 8 miles south of Hebron
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ma.on · Maon · Hebrew/Aramaic
6 tagged verse occurrences
Joshua 15:55 · מָע֥וֹן׀Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,Judges 10:12 · וּמָע֔וֹןThe Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.1 Samuel 23:24 · מָעוֹן֙And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men [were] in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.1 Samuel 23:25 · מָע֑וֹן · מָעֽוֹן׃Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.1 Samuel 25:2 · בְּמָע֜וֹןAnd [there was] a man in Maon, whose possessions [were] in Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.1 Chronicles 2:45 · מָע֑וֹן · וּמָע֖וֹןAnd the son of Shammai [was] Maon: and Maon [was] the father of Bethzur.