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Madmen

Madmen, a place in Moab against which Jeremiah prophesied destruction (Jeremiah 48:2).

Madmen is mentioned in Jeremiah 48:2 as a place in Moab that is threatened with destruction in the prophecies of Jeremiah. The verse states, "There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee" (KJV). The play upon the words in the original Hebrew suggests a possible error in transcription, with the initial "M" of "Madmen" possibly arising by dittography from the last letter of the preceding word "gam." The location is not provided in the Bible.

Bible dictionary

Madmen Easton Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Ibid., a Moabite town threatened with the sword of the Babylonians (Jer. 48:2).

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Madmen Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(dunghill), a place in Moab, threatened with destruction in the pronunciations of Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 48:2)

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Madmen Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

MAD'MEN (dunghill), probably the name of a place in Moab threatened with destruction in the denunciations of Jeremiah 48:2.

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Madmen Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

MAD'MEN (dunghill), probably the name of a place in Moab threatened with destruction in the denunciations of Jeremiah 48:2.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Madmen appears

1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H4086

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