Strong H45842 sensesמָעוֹן

Meaning of the name

The 2 senses of Strong H4584

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4584 appears in 6 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. A city in Judah; home of Nabal and AbigailH4584G5 verses · Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel
2. Son of Shammai, a descendant of Caleb.H4584H1 verse · 1 Chronicles

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• maon5
• maonites1

First verses

1. Joshua 15:55
   Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
2. Judges 10:12
   The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
3. 1 Samuel 23:24
   And 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.
4. 1 Samuel 23:25
   Saul 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.
5. 1 Samuel 25:2
   And 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.
6. 1 Chronicles 2:45
   And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth–zur.