Hebrew word · H4233

מַחֲוִים

hamachavim

Mahavite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

People descended from Mahav(?), only mentioned at 1Ch.11.46

§ Mahavite = "propagators"

1) apparently, an inhabitant of a place called 'Macheweh'

1a) the designation of Eliel, one of David's mighty warriors

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

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:46 הַֽמַּחֲוִ֔ים the Mahavite

    Eliel the Mahavite, Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite,

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