In Ca 5" there occurs the simile, ‘ His legs are as pillars of marble’ (ey πον, LXX στύλοι μαρμάρινοι).
In Apocr. μάρμαρος occurs only once (Ep. Jer”). Here it is said that the idols of the heathen shall be known to be no gods ἀπὸ τῆς πορφύρας καὶ τῆς μαρμάρου τῆς ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς σηπομένης. The context seems to make it necessary to understand μάρμαρος here in its root meaning of ‘sparkling,’ or ‘ bril- liance,’ and so both AV and RV render τῆς op. καὶ τῆς wap. by ‘ bright purple.’
In NT μαάρμαρος also occurs once, being named as part of the merchandise of the ΒΒΟΘΕΙ ΒΟ Babylon (Rev 18:5). AMES PATRICK.
MARCHESHYAN (py, Mish. Zaanith, i. 3, 4; Μαρσουάνης, Jos. Ant. I. iii. 3).—See TIME.
MARCUS (Μάρκος, or, perhaps more accurately, Μᾶρκος ; see MARK [JOHN], p. 245°).—This form of the name of St. Mark (wh. see) occurs in AV of Col 4", Philem™, 1 P 54. RV has ‘ Mark’ in every instance.
MARDOCHEUS (Μαρδοχαῖος Maridochmus). —1. The name of MorbDECcAI, the uncle of Esther, appears in this form in the Soya additions to the Book of Esther (Ad. Est 1lo* 1155. 12) +8 16%). In 2 Mac 15” the l4th of Adar, that is, the first day of the feast of Purim, is called ‘ Mar- docheus’ day’ (7 Μαρδοχαικὴ ἡμέρα, RV ‘the day of Mordecai’). 2. In 1 Es δ᾽, for MORDECAI, one of the leaders of the Jews, who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel and Joshua; ef. Ezr 2*, Neh 7’.
Η. A. WHITE.
Ὡς eee
344 MARESHAH MARK
ee eee
MARESHAH (7yx2> and 7¥72>).—1. The ‘ father’ of Hebron, 1 Ch 93 (Β Μαρεισά, ‘A Mapicd). Perhaps we may gather from this passage t hat abiedhiahs, which is really the city of Jos 15%, colonized Hebron. 2. A Judahite, 1 Ch 45) (B Marya, A Mapnod). See next article, and GENEALOGY, IV. 2. 29.
MARESHAH (7720, in Jos 15“ agxip).—A city in the Shephélah of Judah, near Keilah and Achzib (Jos 15%; B Βαθησάρ, A Mapned) ; fortified by Reho- boam (2 Ch 118; B Mapewd, A Mapa); the scene of the encounter between Asa and Zerah the Ethiopian (2 Ch 145: 10. B Μαρισήλ, Mapelon, A Mapnod); the birthplace of Dodavah the father of the prophet Eleazar, 2Ch 207 (B Mapelon, A Maplon) ; mentioned also in Mic 1” (where see Nowack’s note). On 1 Ch 25 4* see the pec article. The Valley of Zephathah ( Tady es- Stfieh) was to the ‘north’ of Mareshah (κατὰ βοῤῥᾶν M.) according to the LXX version of 2 Ch 14. In Mic 116 there is a play on the name as if meaning ‘inheritance.’
Outside the canonical Scriptures, Mareshah plays an important part. It was plundered by Judas Maccabeus (Jos. Ant. XII. viii. 6, after whom we ought certainly to correct Σαμαρίαν of 1 Mac 5% to Μαρίσαν ; ef. 2 Mac 125), subdued by John Hyreanus (Ant. XII. ix. 1, x. 2), freed by Pompey (id. XIV. iv. 4), and finally destroyed by the Parthians (7b. XIV. xiii. 9).
In the 4th cent. A.D. the site was known (Onomast. 275. 189) as being 2 Roman miles from Eleutheropolis (Beit Jibrin), which is a somewhat overstated distance. The present ruin Mer'ash, in spite of its guttural, no oubt repre- sents Mareshah (see Onomast. s. ‘ Marsa’). There are some remarkable rock-chambers, with flights of steps, close by, which seem to have been gran- aries or reservoirs. See SWP vol. iii. sheet xx.
C. R. CONDER.
MARIMOTH (Marimoth), 2 Es 12= MERAIOTH, an ancestor of Ezra (Ezr 7°). Also called MEME- ROTH, 1 Es 83.
Love’s Labour's Lost, iv. ii. 115— “If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice.”
against thee?’ RV ‘as a mark ἴοι thee.’
which Go
obstacle against which the Almigh set purpose striking Himself. The of unprecedented boldness.’
t t
tives, 70; also Sayce in Expos. Times, vii. 367.
deity. Of. W. R.
250 f.
MARISA (Mapica, Maresa).—The Greek form of the name MARESHAH. It occurs only in 2 Mae 12%5, but should be read also in 1 Mac 5", where all Greek MSS wrongly have ‘Samaria’; but Old Lat. Marisan, Jos. Ant. Xt. viii. 6 Μαρίσα. The false reading ‘Samaria’ is found in 2 Mac 1933 in four cursives and Syr. H. A. WHITE.
had the shape of a cross. See ALPHABET.
bewailed the abominations in Jerusalem.
MARISH.—This old form of ‘marsh’ has been allowed to remain in modern editions of AV. It is still occasionally seen in poetry, as Tennyson, Dying Swan—
“And far through the marish green and still The tangled water-courses slept.’
It occurs in Ezk 474, 1 Mae 9% *. Cf. Berners’ Froissart, 37, ‘True it was that some of the knights of Scotland did ever the annoyance they could to the Englishmen, and kept them in the wild country among marishes and great forests, so that no man could follow them.’ he word is also an adj., as Bacon, Essays, p. 142, ‘in Marish and unwholesome Grounds.’ J. HASTINGS.
In Job 3135 the word is
Stn. The téw of Ezk is in the writer’s mind.
MARK.--1. πη 1S 20%, Job 162, and xD La 313, a target, a butt. As 1S 20” 1 will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot ata mark.’ Cf. Shaks. Venus, 941—
“Thy mark is feeble age, but thy false dart Mistakes that aim and cleaves an infant's heart.’