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maccabees
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maccabees \Mac"ca*bees\, n. pl.
The name given in later times to the Asmon[ae]ans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 b. c., which led to a period of freedom for Israel.
--Schaff-Herzog.The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Late Latin Maccabæus, surname given to Judas, third son of Mattathias the Hasmonean, leader of the religious revolt against Antiochus IV, 175-166 B.C.E. Usually connected with Hebrew maqqabh "hammer," but Klein thinks it an inexact transliteration of Hebrew matzbi "general, commander of an army." Related: Maccabean.
Wikipedia
The Maccabees, also spelled Machabees (, Maqabim; or Machado; , Makkabaioi), were the leaders of a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea, which at the time had been a province of the Seleucid Empire. They founded the Hasmonean dynasty, which ruled from 164 BCE to 63 BCE. They reasserted the Jewish religion, partly by forced conversion, expanded the boundaries of Judea by conquest and reduced the influence of Hellenism and Hellenistic Judaism.
Maccabees were Jewish rebels against Hellenization in the 2nd Century BC.
Maccabees may also refer to:
- Books of the Maccabees, deuterocanonical books
- Knights of the Maccabees, fraternal organization
- Maccabees Building in Detroit, Michigan
- The Maccabees (band), English indie rock band
Usage examples of "maccabees".
By way of a joke he said that as it was Christmas Eve he supposed I should be going to rock the infant Jesus asleep, but I answered that I was come to keep the Feast of the Maccabees with him--a reply which gained me the applause of the whole family and an invitation to stay with them.
Holofernes is founded on the book of Judith, so is that of Antiochus on the Second Book of the Maccabees, chap.
Apocrypha include Ecclesiasticus, Judith, the first and second book of Maccabees, Tobit, and Wisdom.
No monuments of Hebrew writing exist which are not posterior even to the Christian era, with the exception of those on the coins of the Maccabees, which are in the ancient or what is termed the Samaritan forms of the Hebrew letters.
Syrians and the Maccabees, and the one last little cup of consecrated oil for the new temple altar in Jerusalem burning miraculously for eight days, until somebody finally showed up with fresh oil.
However, the Maccabees themselves then impudently assumed the titles of both the kingship and high priesthood, to which they were not by descent entitled, and there were perpetrated within that family a numbor of ugly betrayals and murders in subsequent struggles for the inheritance.
He found Hilary in his study, reading a book on the civilisation of the Maccabees, in preparation for a review.
So I would remind you, even as it is written in First Maccabees, that King An-tiochus, a heathen king, was set over us, and he declared to his whole kingdom that we should now be one people, Jews and gentiles alike.
Greeks were in power he ran an all-night grocery store and when the Maccabees were in power he poured candles.
And starting with Hannah and her seven sons, all of whom died rather than bow down to Greek idols as recorded in Maccabees of the Apocrypha, we have had a long record of martyrdom.
Masada, where a band of Jewish warriors, the Maccabees, withstood a long, furious Roman assault until they were finally overcome and entered the pantheon of martyrs.
The suburb linking New Jerusalem with Mount Scopus had been given to the Maccabees to defend.
One brother dead and another wounded and a third the leader of the Maccabees suicide squad inside the Old City walls.