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Machabees

American  
[mak-uh-beez] / ˈmæk əˌbiz /

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. Maccabees.


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It was the belief among the Jews of old, and of this we have clear proof in the Second Book of Machabees, xii.,

From Purgatory by Mrs. James Sadlier

The word is not found in Hebrew brew copies of the Scriptures, but is used in the Machabees, the original of which is in Greek, and in the New Testament.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

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 Raphael Holinshed

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 John Gerard

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

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