maccabees in English

noun
1
the members or followers of the family of the Jewish leader Judas Maccabaeus.
The second miracle, mentioned in our Chanukah prayers, was the miraculous defeat of the Greek army by the much smaller Jewish forces under the Maccabees .

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1. The Maccabees React

2. The Seleucid rulers at first opposed the Maccabees vigorously.

3. During the time of the Maccabees, how did the Edomites become amalgamated with the Jewish nation?

4. The books of the Apocrypha include 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah, Prayer of Manasseh, 1 Maccabees, and 2 Maccabees, as well as additions to the books of Esther and Daniel

5. It is in fact the only occur- rence of the term Anathematizein (or the word anathema) in 1 Maccabees

6. 4, The Maccabees fought rather than Acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple

7. Apollonius Apollo'nius (Α᾿πολλώνιος, from Apollo), the name of several men in the history of the Maccabees and Josephus

8. The Septuagint includes a number of books commonly referred to as the Old Testament Apocrypha – for example, Tobit, Wisdom, I and II Maccabees, and Judith

9. The Apocrypha generally consists of 14 booklets of which 1 and 2 Maccabees and 1 Esdras are the main documents and form the bulk of the Apocryphal writings

10. In his book The Maccabees, Moshe Pearlman writes: “Although the records are not explicit, Antiochus appears to have concluded that allowing the Jews religious latitude had been a political error.

11. Again, "I can not finde a place that of it selfe more properly Confuteth this phantasticall Purgatory," says Frith of II Maccabees xii.44, "then doth this 9See Wilson, Arte, pp

12. Bek, bek'-'-n (neuma): This word from neuo, "to nod," "Beckon," "make a sign" by moving the head or eyes (Luke 5:7 John 13:24 Acts 21:40; Acts 24:10), occurs only in 2 Maccabees 8:18, "Almighty God who at a beck can cast down both them that come against us, and also all the world," the Revised Version (British and American), "able at a beck."