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•MALLOTHI my fulness, a Kohathite Levite, one of the sons of Heman the Levite (1 Chronicles 25:4), and chief of the nineteenth division of the temple musicians (26).
•MALLOWS occurs only in Job 30:4 (R.V., “saltwort”). The word so rendered (malluah, from melah, “salt”) most probably denotes the Atriplex halimus of Linnaeus, a species of sea purslane found on the shores of the Dead Sea, as also of the Mediterranean, and in salt marshes. It is a tall shrubby orach, growing to the height sometimes of 10 feet. Its buds and leaves, with those of other saline plants, are eaten by the poor in Palestine.
•MALLUCH reigned over, or reigning. (1.) A Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chronicles 6:44).
(2.) A priest who returned from Babylon (Nehemiah 12:2). (3.) Ezra 10:29. (4.) Ezra 10:32
•MAMMON a Chaldee or Syriac word meaning “wealth” or “riches” (Luke 16:9-11); also, by personification, the God of riches (Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:9-11).
•MAMRE manliness. (1.) An Amoritish chief in alliance with Abraham (Genesis 14:13, 24).
(2.) The name of the place in the neighbourhood of Hebron (q.v.) where Abraham dwelt (Genesis 23:17, 19; 35:27); called also in Authorized Version (13:18) the “plain of Mamre,” but in Revised Version more correctly “the oaks [marg., ‘terebinths’] of Mamre.” The name probably denotes the “oak grove” or the “wood of Mamre,” thus designated after Abraham’s ally.