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Machabees

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[mak-uh-beez] / ˈmæk əˌbiz /

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. Maccabees.


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An unexpected light shall arise by the means of the Machabees, when things shalll seem to be at the worst.

From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision by

Authority of the Church derived from God, 65; absence of, causes dissensions, 97; authorized versus private interpretation, 81; of the Book of Machabees, 214.

From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James

They took not indeed the course of the Machabees, which they deemed in their case to be merely impossible.

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John

Viz., according to the computation followed by the Greeks; which was different from that of the Hebrews, followed by the writer of the first book of Machabees.

From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision by

West. the deliuerance of the Israelites 229, and in the fourth yeare of the Seleuciens, after which account the bookes of Machabees doo reckon, which began in the 14, after the death of Alexander.

From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) by Holinshed, Raphael