Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4584
מָעוֹן
ma.on · “Maon”
Used 8 times across 4 books
Definition
§ Maon or Maonites = "habitation"
a city of Judah located 8 miles south of Hebron
Where it appears
Joshua1
Judges1
1 Samuel4
1 Chronicles2
In the text
Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,Judges 10:12The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.1 Samuel 23:24And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.1 Samuel 23:25Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.1 Samuel 25:2And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.1 Chronicles 2:45And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth–zur.
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