Smith's Bible Dictionary
Meadow - In (Genesis 41:2,18) meadow appears to be an Egyptian term meaning some kind of flag or waterplant, as its use in (Job 8:11) (Authorized Version "flag") seems to show.
- In (Judges 20:33) the sense of the Hebrew word translated meadow is doubly uncertain. The most plausible interpretation is that of the Peshito-Syriac, which by a slight difference in the vowel-points makes the word mearah , "the cave."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
MEADOWmed'-o:
(1) `aroth, "the meadows (the King James Version "paper reeds") by the Nile" (Isaiah 19:7); ma`areh-gabha`, the King James Version "meadows of Gibeah," the Revised Version (British and American) "Maareh-geba," the Revised Version margin "the meadow of Geba, or Gibeah" (Judges 20:33); from `arah, "to be naked"; compare Arabic ariya, "to be naked," `ara'a', "a bare tract of land." `Aroth and ma`areh signify tracts bare of trees.
(2) 'achu, in Pharaoh's dream of the kine, the King James Version "meadow," the Revised Version (British and American) "reed grass" (Genesis 41:2, 18). 'Achu is found also in Job 8:11, the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "flag," the Revised Version margin "reed-grass." According to Gesenius, achu is an Egyptian word denoting the vegetation of marshy ground.
(3) 'abhel keramim, "Abel-cheramim," the Revised Version margin "The meadow of vineyards," the King James Version "the plain (the King James Version margin, "Abel") of the vineyards" (Judges 11:33); "Abel-beth-maacah" (1 Kings 15:20 2 Kings 15:29; compare 2 Samuel 20:14, 15, 18); "Abel-shittim" (Numbers 33:49; compare Numbers 25:1 Joshua 2:1; Joshua 3:1 Judges 7:22 Joel 3:18 Micah 6:5); "Abel-meholah" (Judges 7:22 1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 19:16); "Abel-maim" (2 Chronicles 16:4); "Abel-mizraim" (Genesis 50:11); "stone," the King James Version "Abel," the Revised Version margin "Abel," that is "a meadow" (1 Samuel 6:18); compare Arabic 'abal, "green grass," and 'abalat, "unhealthy marshy ground," from wabal, "to rain."
Alfred Ely Day
VINEYARDS, MEADOW (PLAIN) OF THE
(Judges 11:33).
See ABEL-CHERAMIM; MEADOW.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(1.) Hebrews ha'ahu (Genesis 41:2, 18), probably an Egyptain word transferred to the Hebrew; some kind of reed or water-plant. In the Revised Version it is rendered "reed-grass", i.e., the sedge or rank grass by the river side.
(2.) Hebrews ma'areh (Judges 20:33), pl., "meadows of Gibeah" (R.V., after the LXX., "Maareh-geba"). Some have adopted the rendering "after Gibeah had been left open." The Vulgate translates the word "from the west."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
2. (n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
3. (a.) of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
Strong's Hebrew
2261. chabatstseleth -- meadow saffron or crocus... chabatstseleth. 2262 >>.
meadow saffron or crocus. Transliteration: chabatstseleth
Phonetic Spelling: (khab-ats-tseh'-leth) Short Definition: crocus.
... /hebrew/2261.htm - 6k 66. Abel Mayim -- "meadow of water"
Abel Mayim. << 65, 66. Abel Mayim. 67 >>. "meadow of water". Transliteration: Abel
Mayim Phonetic Spelling: (aw-bale' mah'-yim) Short Definition: Abel-maim. ...
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58. abel -- "meadow," part of a place name
... << 57, 58. abel. 59 >>. "meadow," part of a place name. Transliteration:
abel Phonetic Spelling: (aw-bale') Short Definition: plain. ...
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67. Abel Mitsrayim -- "meadow of Egypt," a place East of the ...
... "meadow of Egypt," a place East of the Jordan. Transliteration: Abel Mitsrayim Phonetic
Spelling: (aw-bale' mits-rah'-yim) Short Definition: Abel-mizraim. ...
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59. Abel -- "meadow," two places in Palestine
... << 58, 59. Abel. 60 >>. "meadow," two places in Palestine. Transliteration:
Abel Phonetic Spelling: (aw-bale') Short Definition: Abel. ...
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5116c. navah -- pasture, meadow
... << 5116b, 5116c. navah. 5117 >>. pasture, meadow. Transliteration: navah Short
Definition: pastures. Word Origin from the same as naveh ...
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260. achu -- reeds, rushes
... flag, meadow. Of uncertain (perhaps Egyptian) derivation; a bulrush or any marshy
grass (particularly that along the Nile) -- flag, meadow. << 259, 260. ...
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3733. kar -- basket-saddle
... From karar in the sense of plumpness; a ram (as full-grown and fat), including a
battering-ram (as butting); hence, a meadow (as for sheep); also a pad or ...
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65. Abel Mecholah -- Elisha's birthplace in Palestine
... Abel-meholah. From 'abel and mchowlah; meadow of dancing; Abel-Mecholah, a place
in Palestine -- Abel-meholah. see HEBREW 'abel. see HEBREW mchowlah. << 64, 65. ...
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62. Abel Beth-maakah -- a city in Northern Israel
... From 'abel and bayith and Ma'akah; meadow of Beth-Maakah; Abel of Beth-maakah, a
place in Palestine -- Abel-beth-maachah, Abel of Beth-maachah,. ...
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