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Nave Topical Bible
• Syria-Maachah
• Maachah
• Beth-Maachah
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Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Maacah or Maachah
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Maachah
• Abel-Beth-Maachah
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Maachah
• Beth-Maachah
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Maachah
• Abel-Beth-Maachah or Abel-Beth-Maacah
Hitchcock Bible Names
• Maachah
• Abel-Beth-Maachah
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Maacah, Maachah
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Abel-Beth-Maachah
People's Bible Dictionary
• Maachah
• Abel-Beth-Maachah
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Maachah
• Beth-maachah
• Abel-beth-maachah
Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Maacah; Maachah
• Syria-Maachah
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Beth-Maachah
• Maachah
• Syria-Maachah
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Abel-Beth-Maachah
• Aram-Maachah
Lexicons
• מַעֲכָה מַעֲכָה, , מַעֲכָת

1. Genesis 22:24.

2. 1 Chronicles 2:48.

3. 1 Chronicles 7:15.

4. 1 Chronicles 8:29.

5. Absalom's mother, taken by David in battle and added to his wives (Jerome): 1 Chronicles 3:2; 2 Samuel 3:3. Talmai's daughter of Geshur, David's wife.

6. Absalom's granddaughter, wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijam (1 Kings 15:1); called Micaiah or Maacah; daughter of Uriel and Tamar, Absalom's daughter (2 Chronicles 13:2). Grandmother (or mother) of Asa, son of Abijam. During Asa's minority she acted as queen mother; but Asa when of age set her aside for her idolatry, which she derived from her ancestors of Geshur (1 Kings 15:13-14; 1 Kings 15:16); 2 Chronicles 11:20-22; 2 Chronicles 15:16, "idol," literally, horror, the emblem of Priapus. Several men are named Maachah:

1. 1 Kings 2:39.

2. 1 Chronicles 11:43.

3. 1 Chronicles 27:16.