Maccabee – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Maccabee
n.
member of the ancient Hasmonean priestly family and descendant of Mattathias (esp. refers to Judah the Maccabee and his brothers)
the Maccabees
n.
group of Hasmoneans who rose up in rebellion against the Syrians in the first century (led by Mattathias and his son Judah, they defeated the Syrians under Antiochus Epiphanes and rededicated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (which is the origin of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah)
Maccabees
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.
maccabeo
adj.
Maccabean
MACCABEE
MACCABEO
Maccabee
s.
makkabeer, medlem av den eldgamle geistlige hasmoneerfamilien og etterkommer av Mattatias (spesielt refererer til Judas makkabeeren og brødrene hans)
