H4584: מָעוֹן
Mâʻôwn · pronounced maw-ohn' · “Maon”
Definition
Maon, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine
KJV translates it as: Maon, Maonites. Compare H1010 (בֵּית בַּעַל מְעוֹן), H4586 (מְעוּנִי)lemma מְעוּנָי third vowel, corrected to מְעוּנִי.
Word origin: the same as H4583 (מָעוֹן); a residence;
Extended definition
a city of Judah located 8 miles south of Hebron
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4584 is translated
- maon ×7
- was maon ×1
Bible verses with H4584 (Mâʻôwn)
Mâʻôwn appears in 6 verses.
- Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
- Judges 10:12
The 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 23:24
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.