[Meth’eg-am’mah]<\/p>\n
Place taken from the Philistines. 2Sa 8:1. The corresponding account in 1Ch 18:1 has ‘Gath and her towns’ (lit. daughters). The signification of the name in Samuel is much disputed. Gesenius and Frst interpret it ‘bridle of the mother-city.’ This would well agree with ‘Gath and her daughter towns.’<\/p>\n
Me’theg-am’mah. (bridle of the metropolis). A place, which David took from the Philistines, apparently, in his last war with them. 2Sa 8:1. Ammah may be taken as meaning “mother-city” or “metropolis”, compare 2Sa 20:19, and Metheg-he-Ammah may mean “the bridle of the mother-city” — namely, of Gath, the chief town of the Philistines.<\/p>\n
Methegammah [Meth’eg-am’mah] Place taken from the Philistines. 2Sa 8:1. The corresponding account in 1Ch 18:1 has ‘Gath and her towns’ (lit. daughters). The signification of the name in Samuel is much disputed. Gesenius and Frst interpret it ‘bridle of the mother-city.’ This would well agree with ‘Gath and her daughter towns.’ Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary … Continue reading “Methegammah”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}