Makemie, Francis, a distinguished Presbyterian minister, was born near Rathmelton, Donegal Co., Ire- land, about the middle of the 17th century. After com- pleting his academical and theological course, he was licensed by the presbytery of Laggan in 1681. He un- dertook a mission to Barbadoes soon after, and was or- dained sine titulo, with a view to coming to America. From Barbadoes he went to Somerset Co., Ind., where he is supposed to have founded the Church in Snow Hill, and from thence he removed to Virginia. In 1699 he obtained a formal license to preach agreeably to the requisitions of the Toleration Act, and was very success- ful in his labors. He went to London in 1704, to make arrangements for the supply of his Church, and return- ed wiih two ministers from Ireland. In 1705 he ob- tained with difficulty the certificates required for the exercise of his ministry, and aided, in 1706, in the for- mation of the I'liiladelphia presbytery, of which he was moderator. He died in 1708. Makemie published A Catechism (1691): — An Answer to Georr/e Keith, etc. (1692) -.—Truths in a New Light, etc. (1699) -.—A plain and loving Persuasive to the Inhabitants of Indiana and Virr/inia, etc. (1704):— .4 Letter to Lord Cortibury (Bos- ton, 1707) -.—An Account of his Imprisonment and Trial (N. Y. 1755, and since). See Sprague, A nnals, iii, 1.
Makhe'loth (Heb. Makheloth', n?np^, assem- blies, as in Psa. Ixviii, 27; Sept. Mcrjcr/Xw^), the twenty- sixth station of the Israelites in the desert, between Haradah and Tahath (Numb, xxxiii, 25, 26); probably situated on the summit north-west of Jebel el-jNIukrah. See ExoDE.
Mak'kedah (Heb. Makkedah', Jl'lg'^, herdsman's place ; Sept. MaKijSd, Josephus MaK^i^a, Arit. v, 1, 17), a royal city of the ancient Canaanites (Josh, xii, 16), in the neighborhood of which was the cave where the five kings who confederated against Israel took refuge after their defeat (Josh, x, 10-29). It afterwards be- longed to Judah (Josh. XV, 41). Makkedah is placed by Euscbius and Jerome eight Roman miles to the east of Elcutheropolis {Ommast. s. v. IMaceda), which would bring it among the mountains, as Keil observes, who therefore locates it to the west (Comment, on Josh, x, 10),
since it was situated in the plain of Judah (Josh, xv, 41), north of Libnah (Josh, x, 29, 31) and west of Aze- kah (Josh, x, 10). De Saulcy {Xan-at. i, 438) is dis- posed to fix its site at a place which he names el-Mer- ked, on the way from Hebron to the Dead Sea, a little cast of Jenbeh ; but this is at least twenty-five miles from Elcutheropolis, and the spot itself was not heard of by Dr. Robinson, who passed along the same route. Porter suggests a ruin bearing the slightly similar name el-Klediah, on the northern slope of wady el-Surnib, about eight miles north*- east of EleutheropoUs, with large caves adjacent {Handbook, p. 224, 251) ; but Van de Velde's selection {Memoir, p. 332) oi Sumeil, a village on a hillock in the plain, about two and a half hours north-west of Beit-Jibrin (Robinson, Researches, ii,868), seems more probable, as it has ancient remains, espe- cially a cavern (Van de Velde, Narrat. ii, 173), although somewhat remote from Beth-horon, where Joshua's bat- tle was fought. See Joshua. The suggestion of cap- tain Warren {Quarterly Statement of the " Palestine Ex- ploration Fund," April, 1871, p. 91), that Makkedah is the present " village of El-Mughar (the cave)" (mean- ing, doubtless, the Mogharah of Van de Velde's Map, though Robinson writes it Mughar, in Researches, iii, 22, note), is quite too far north for the narrative in Joshua, as well as for the associated names, his proposed identification of which would place some, at least, of them (e. g. Beth-dagon, at Beit-Dejan) clearly within the tribe of Dan.
Makkoth. See Talmitd.
Makowski. See Maccovius.
Makrina. The Roman Catholic Church recognises two saints by this name.
1. A Cappadocian lady, grandmother of Gregory of Nyssa, who suffered persecution under the reign of Max- imian, and wandered for a long time through the woods, together with her husband. She is commemorated on the 14th of Januar}'.
2. The sister of St. Basil and of St. Gregory of Nyssa ; after the death of her father she withdrew into solitude, and afterwards induced her mother to establish a con- vent in Pontus, into which she retired. She died in 379, after performing a great number of miracles, etc. Her life was written by her brother, St. Gregory. She is commemorated on the 19th of July. — Herzog, Real- Encyklop. viii, 746 ; Pierer, Universal- Lexikon, x, 764 ; Migne, Nouv. Encyclopklie Theologique, ii, 1298.
Mak'tesh (Heb. Maktesh', ^Piari [but with the art.], a mortar, as in Prov. xxvii, 12, or the sockets of a tooth, as in Judg. xv, 19; Sept. renders KciraKeKo/^nevri, Vulg. Pila'), a place in or near Jerusalem, mentioned as inhabited," apparently by silver-merchants (Zeph. i, 11). Geseuius regards it as the name of a valley, so called from its mortar-like shape {Thesaurus, p. 725). The rabbins understand the Kedron and other less likely places to be meant. Ewald conjectures {Propiheten, p. 364) that it was the " Phoenician quarter" of the city, in which the traders of that nation — the Canaanites (A. Vers. " merchants"), who in this passage are associated with Maktesh — resided, after the custom in Oriental towns. Dr. Barclay {City of the Great King, p. 100, 157, 173) ingeniously suggests that it may have been a quar- ter devoted to minting operations, and therefore situated near the goldsmith's bazaar, which was doubtless loca- ted somewhere in Acra or the lower city, but whether in the Tyropoeon adjoining the Temple, where he places it, is uncertain.