Strong’s H4584 · Hebrew
מָעוֹן
Mâʻôwn · maw-ohn'
Origin the same as מָעוֹן (H4583); a residence;
Meaning Maon, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine
In the King James Version Maon, Maonites. Compare בֵּית בַּעַל מְעוֹן (H1010), מְעוּנִי (H4586) lemma מְעוּנָי third vowel, corrected to מְעוּנִי
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Joshua 15:55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
- Judges 10:12The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:24And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
- 1 Samuel 23:25Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
- 1 Samuel 25:2And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 1 Chronicles 2:45And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.