Maon: meaning of the name

Who named Maon in the Bible

• Maon, son of Shammai

  1 verse · first mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:45 · Tribe of Judah

Places named Maon

• Maon

Maon in Scripture

“Maon” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

• Joshua 15:55

  Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

• 1 Samuel 23:24

  And 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 23:25

  Saul 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 25:2

  And 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 2:45

  And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth–zur.