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HebrewH4584Noun

מָעוֹן

ma.on

6Occurrences
H4584Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Maon, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine

the same as H4583 (מָעוֹן); a residence;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Maon or Maonites = "habitation" a city of Judah located 8 miles south of Hebron

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

מָעוֹן appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
3
1 Chronicles
1
Judges
1
Joshua
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:45BSB

The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

1 Samuel 23:24BSB

So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,

1 Samuel 23:25BSB

and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.

1 Samuel 25:2BSB

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

Judges 10:12BSB

Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.