Misericordia Domini is the name of the second Sunday from Easter, so called from the opening lines of the mass read on that day in the Eomish churches. In the Greek Church the day is frequently called St. Thomas's Sunday.
Mis'gab (Heb. itfisgah', S^bp, height, as often; Sept. 'Ajua3' to Kparaitofia v. r. MaaiyaB, and tu oxi'- pioj-ia 'Mwd(3,\'i\\g./ortis'), a town in Moab, situated on the desolating track of the invading Babylonians (Jer. xlviii, 1), probably so called from being located on an eminence. De Saulcy {Xari-ative, i, 391) suggests a connection with the present Wady el-MuJtb, the ancient Arnon ; but this is merely fanciful. The place is doubt- less to be sought near the associated localities of Kiria- thaim and Heshbon ; perhaps it is only an appellative (as it usually has the article) for the older locality Ba- JIOTH (q. v.). Others think it may be the Mizpeh of Moab (1 Sam. xxiii, 3), or a general name for the high- lands of Moab, as in Isa. xxv, 12 (without the art. A. V. •'high fort"). See Moab.
Mish'ael (Heb. MishaeV, ^X'w'i'3, who is like God ? Sept. IMt(T«);X), the name of three men.
1. The eldest of the three sons of Uzziel (the son of Kohath and grandson of Levi), and conseipiently the cousin of Aaron (Exod. vi, 2-2). He, with his brother Elzaphan, at the command of Moses, carried out the bodies of Nadab and Abihu to burial (Lev. x, 4). B.C. lGa7. They may thus have been two of those whose defilement by a dead body prevented their keeping the passover at Sinai on the regular day (Numb, ix, G ; see Blunt, Coincidences, ad loc).
2. The second named of the three Hebrew youths (Dan. i, 6) trained along with Daniel at the Babylonian court (Dan. i, 11), and promoted to the rank of magi (Dan. i, 19). Having assisted Daniel in solving the dream of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. ii, 17), they were ad- vanced to civil dignities (Dan. iii, 12); but were after- wards cast into the blazing furnace for refusing to wor- ship the royal idol ; and, being miraculously delivered from it, they were still more highly honored by the king (Dan. iii, 13-30). His Chaldajan name was Me- SHACH (Dan. i, 7). B.C. cir. 580.
3. One of those (apparently chief Israelites) who supported Ezra on the left hand wlule reading the law to the people after the captivity (Neh. viii, 4). B.C. 410.
Mi'slial (Heb. Mishal', ^N"J"a, prob. entreaty; Sept. M((Ta/\«), a city of the tribe of Asher (.Josh, xix, 26, where it is Anglicized "Misheal"), assigned to tjie Levites of the family of Gershom (.Josh, xxi, 30) ; else- where called Mashal (1 Chron. vi, 74). It is doubtless the Masan referred to by Eusebius {Onomast. s. v. Ma- (Tfi)') as situated on the Mediterranean, near Carmcl, a position with which the text (Josh, xix, 26) agrees (see Keil, Comment, ad loc). It is probably the modern ru- ined village Misalli, near the shore about three miles north of Athlit (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 335).
Mi'sham (Heb. Misham', C^'d^, according to Ge- senius, their cleansing or their beholding; according to Fiirst, 7nadn€ss; Sept. Min-ffctX, Vulg. Jlisaam), one of the sons of Elpaal, of the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned aa
MISHEAL
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the rebuilders of Ono, Lod, and their suburbs (1 Chron.
viii, 12). I5.C. post 1612.
Mish'eal (Josh, xix, 26). See Mishau Mish'ma (Ileb. Mishma', 'S'Q'^'q, hearing, as in
Isa. xi, 3 ; Sept. Maajia), the name of two men.
1. The fifth of the twelve sons of Ishmael, and heads of Arabian tribes (Gen. xxv, 14; 1 Chron. i, 30). B.C. considerably post 2061. The people called by Ptolemy Mcescemanes (vi, 7, 21, 'Waiaatjiaviit;), who were located to the north-east of Medina, were probably descended from him. Arabic writers mention the Beni-Mismuh (Frcytaj;, llamas, II, i, 220), but nothing is known of them (Knobel, Genes, ad loc). See Akaiua.
2. The son of Mibsan, of the tribe of Judah, and fa- ther of Hamuol (1 Chron. iv, 25, 26). B.C. considerably ante 1053.
Mishman'nah (Heb. Miskmannak', t^S^'i'p,/«^ mss; Sept. Maafniv v. r. Maa^tavci), the fourth of the Gadite braves who repaired to David in the wilderness of Adullam (1 Chron. xii, 10). B.C. cir. 1061.
Mishna (Heb. H3'dl2, Mlshndh), the code of Jewish laws arranged about the year A.D. 200 or 220, at Tibe- rias, in Palestine, by K. Jehudah, surnamed Hakkadosh (q. v.). The title is by some understood as importing "second," like nS'^p in Gen. xliii, 23,tlic rabbinical code being second or next to the Pentateuch ; it is so inter- preted in tlie rabbinical lexicon Sclndchan A j-uqh, but •we think it is more likely derived from ilj'd, to study, also to teach, which perhaps at first meant only " to re- peat." In the Talmud (q. v.), quotations from the Mish- na are introduced by the Aramaic word "Dn, Tenan, i. e. we hare xtudinl; and the book itself is called "pri'^Jtip, Mathidtliiii ; wliile the rabbins who lived before the pub- lication of the Mishna are spoken of as "("X|P, learners, or perhaps teachers ; and their sayings, not found in that collection, are quoted X"^!", " it was learned or taught." The version '-learners" for Tannaiu is not unnatural, as the Heb. official name for Itabbins is C'i?2rri *'7^'r^^i disciples of the vdse. The sons of R. Jehudah are named among the Tannain, and tliey most probably assisted in the completion of the work of the ^lishna.