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Joshua 15:55
“Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מָעוֹןMâʻôwn · maw-ohn'
H4584 · Hebrew
H4584 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Maon, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine
- Derivation
- the same as H4583 (מָעוֹן); a residence;
- KJV renderings
- Maon, Maonites. Compare H1010 (בֵּית בַּעַל מְעוֹן), H4586 (מְעוּנִי)lemma מְעוּנָי third vowel, corrected to מְעוּנִי.
- Grammar
- מָע֥וֹן — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 8 times in the Hebrew Bible.Judges 10:121 Samuel 23:241 Samuel 23:251 Samuel 23:251 Samuel 25:2
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָעוֹן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.