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Mesha

Burden; salvation Mesha is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “burden; salvation.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H4331, H4337, H4338, H4852
Hebrew
מֵישָׁא · Mêyshâʼ
Name meaning
burden; salvation According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

מֵישָׁא

H4331
Transliteration
Mêyshâʼ
Pronunciation
may-shaw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Mesha.

Lexicon definition

Mesha, a place in Arabia

also an Israelite

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

מֵישָׁע

H4337
Transliteration
Mêyshâʻ
Pronunciation
may-shah'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Mesha.

Lexicon definition

Mesha, an Israelite

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

מֵשָׁא

H4852
Transliteration
Mêshâʼ
Pronunciation
may-shaw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Mesha.

Lexicon definition

Mesha, a place in Arabia

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

G—

The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Mesha

burden; salvation

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Mesha

Indexed occurrences: 4

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All Scripture references5 references

Genesis 1

Genesis 10:30

2 Kings 2

2 Kings 3:42 Kings 3:20

1 Chronicles 2

1 Chronicles 2:421 Chronicles 8:9

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

MESHA

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for MESHA.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:
Genesis 10:30

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Mesha

Meaning:
burden; salvation

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

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Topic

MESHA

Nave’s Topical Bible references for MESHA.

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Kir-haraseth

Built fortress, a city and fortress of Moab, the modern Kerak, a small town on the brow of a steep hill about 6 miles from Rabbath-Moab and 10 miles from the Dead Sea; called also Kir-haresh, Kir-hareseth, Kir-heres (Isa. 16:7, 11; Jer. 48:31, 36). After the death of Ahab, Mesha, king of Moab (see [341]MOABITE STONE), threw off allegiance to the king of Israel, and fought successfully for the independence of his kingdom. After this Jehoram, king of Israel, in seeking to regain his supremacy over Moab, entered into an alliance with Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and with the king of Edom. The three kings led their armies against Mesha, who was driven back to seek refuge in Kir-haraseth. The Moabites were driven to despair. Mesha then took his eldest son, who would have reigned in his stead, and offered him as a burnt-offering on the wall of the fortress in the sight of the allied armies. "There was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land." The invaders evacuated the land of Moab, and Mesha achieved the independence of his country (2 Kings 3:20-27).

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Mesha

burden; salvation

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Moabite Stone

A basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a German missionary at Jerusalem, in 1868. It was 3 1/2 feet high and 2 in breadth and in thickness, rounded at the top. It consisted of thirty-four lines, written in Hebrew-Phoenician characters. It was set up by Mesha as a record and memorial of his victories. It records (1) Mesha's wars with Omri, (2) his public buildings, and (3) his wars against Horonaim. This inscription in a remarkable degree supplements and corroborates the history of King Mesha recorded in 2 Kings 3:4-27. With the exception of a very few variations, the Moabite language in which the inscription is written is identical with the Hebrew. The form of the letters here used supplies very important and interesting information regarding the history of the formation of the alphabet, as well as, incidentally, regarding the arts of civilized life of those times in the land of Moab. This ancient monument, recording the heroic struggles of King Mesha with Omri and Ahab, was erected about B.C. 900. Here "we have the identical slab on which the workmen of the old world carved the history of their own times, and from which the eye of their contemporaries read thousands of years ago the record of events of which they themselves had been the witnesses." It is the oldest inscription written in alphabetic characters, and hence is, apart from its value in the domain of Hebrew antiquities, of great linguistic importance.

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