Hebrew word · H4086

מַדְמֵן

madmen

Madmen

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

§ Madmen = "dunghill"

a place in Moab threatened with destruction in the denunciations of Jeremiah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Jeremiah · 1

  1. Jeremiah 48:2 מַדְמֵ֣ן O Madmen

    There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

    Here: A Moabite town, addressed directly and mentioned nowhere else in the Bible; its location is uncertain. The name is pronounced roughly mad-MAIN, has nothing to do with the English 'madmen', and chimes with the verb that follows.

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