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Mahavites

Warriors from or of Mahav(?)

The Mahavites were represented among David's mighty men.

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Also known as Mahavite

The Mahavites are mentioned in the context of listing David's mighty men, a group of elite warriors who fought alongside him. In 1Ch.11.46, the Mahavites are listed among these warriors, suggesting that at least one of David's mighty men came from a place or clan called Mahavim. However, no further information is provided about their identity or location.

Bible dictionary

Mahavites Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

declaring a message; marrow

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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 Mahavites appears

1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H4233

1 Chronicles1

Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.