moval, which took place at Hazeroth, form the last pub- lic event of jVIiriam's life. She died towards the close of the wanderings at Kadesh, and was buried there (Numb. XX, 1). B.C. 1G19. Her tomb was sliown near Petra in the days of Jerome (Onomast. s. v. Cades Bar- nea). According to the Jewish tradition (Josephus, Ant. iv, 4, G), her death took place on the new moon of the month Xanthicus (i. e. about the end of February), which seems to imi)ly that the anniversary was stiU ob- served in the time of Josephus. The burial, he adds, took place with great pomp on a mountain called Zin, i. e. the wilderness of Zin) ; and the mourning — which lasted, as in the case of her brothers, for thirty days — was closed by the institution of the purilication through the sacrifice of the heifer (Numb, xix, 1-10), which in the Pentateuch immediately precedes the story of her death. According to Josephus (.4?)/. iii, 2, 4; G, 1), she was married to the famous Ilur, and, througli him, was grandmother of the architect Bezalecl. In tlie Ko- ran (ch. iii) she is confounded with the Virgin Mary; and hence the Holy Family is called the Family of Am- ram, or Imram (see also U'Herbelot, Bibl. Orient, s. v. Zakaria). In otlier Arabic traditions her name is given as Kollhum (see Weil's Jiibl. Lef/end:!, p. 101). — Smith.
2. The first named of the sons of tiered (the son of Ezra, of the faniily of CahlO by Bilhiah, the daughter of Pharaoh ^ Cliron. iv. 17). IJ.C. jirub. cir. 1G58." Sec Mi;ni:i>.
Miikhond, :\IoiiAMMr.r> Eisx-Emir Kmowand Sii All. a iioicil F.asicrn historian, a native of Persia, was born in M;M. and died in 149«. He is the autlior of a work containing legends concerning Persian kings and sages, extracts of wliich were first i)ublislied by Davity (Etats, empiies, roi/aunus du monde). He also wrote a history of the Samanites, published in (ierman by Wil- ken (Geschichte der Samaniden), at (Jiittingen, in 1808, anil in French l)y Defremeny (Paris, 1845).
Mii'nia (Ileb. Mirmah', iT:'^':, dvedt, as often; Sept. M(T^)/(((), the last named of the sous of Slialuiraim bv Hodesli, and a chieftain of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Chron. viii, 10). B.C. post 1(!I2.
Miron, CiiAUi.ics.a French prelate, was born in 1.5G9. At eighteen, holding already the abbotship of Cormcri and Airvaux, he was appointed by the king bishop of Angers. Of the difTcrent parlies which tlien divided
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France, Miron espoused the cause of Henry IV. He was also one of the preachers who pronounced a funeral eu- logy upon the king when assassinated by the hand of Ravaillac. Miron, upon removing from Angers to Paris, continued to hold his relation to the Church at Angers, and thereby provoked a grave dispute be- tween the bishop and his chapter. The chapter, insist- ing upon the pope's appointment, declared themselves free from Miron's episcopal jurisdiction, to which the bishop took decided exception, and the disputes called forth by this affair finally led Miron to vacate his bish- opric. He transmitted his insignia to Guillaume Fou- quet de la Varenne, and became, by exchange, abbot of Saint-Lomer de Blois. This transaction took place in 1615. But in 1621, Guillaume Fouquet having died, Miron reclaimed his bishopric, obtained it a second time, and entered Angers April 23, 1622. Very soon the dis- cussions between the bishop and the chapter were re- sumed, and only terminated by the papal appointment of Miron to the archbishopric of Lyons, Dec. 2, 1026. This nomination was denounced by Salon as detrimental to the liberties of the Galilean Church. He died, however, before much could come of the opposition, Aug. G, 1628. — Gallia Christiana, iv, col. 192 ; xiv, col. 584, 585 ; Hoe- fer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxxv, 068.
Mirror. Although this word does not occur in the Auth. Vers., except in the Apocrypha (Wisd. vii, 20), it is the proper representative of at least two Heb. and one Gr. term, for which our translators employ the less correct rendering "looking-glass" (nx'ip, marah', a vision, as often, Exod. xxxviii, 8; Sept. KaTOirrpoi', Vulg. speculum; "X^, re'i', a spectacle, Job xxxvii, 18, Sept. opaffic, Vulg. as; "ii"^??-, fjilyon', a tablet of wood, stone, or metal on which to inscribe anything, so called as being made hare, Isa. viii, 1 ; in Isa. iii, 23 the plural refers, according to the Chald., Abarbanel, Jarchi, and others, with the Vulg. specula, and the Auth. Vers. " glasses," to mirrors or polished plates of metal, see Ge- senius. Comment, ad loc, but Kimchi and others under- stand, with the Sept., cia<pavri Acikoviku, transparent garments, such as show the body, comp. Schroder, De Vest. mill. Heb. p. 311, 312). In the first of the forego- ing passages the mirrors in the possession of the women of the Israelites, when they quitted Egypt, are described as being of brass ; for " the laver of brass, and the foot of it," were made from them. In the second, the firma- ment is compared to " a molten mirror." In fact, the mirrors used in ancient times were almost universally of metal (the passage in the iMishna, Chelim, xxx, 2, does not allude to glass mirrors) ; and as those of the Hebrew women in the wilderness were brought out of Egypt, they were doubtless of the same kind as those which have been found in the tombs of that country, and many of ^vhich now exist in our museums and col-