A dictionary of the . e half-nomadand herdsmans life led by thisportion of the tribe. Jud. 5:15. The people were powerfuland brave, taking a leadingpart in the wars of Gideon, of Jephthah,and of David. See also Gilead andBashan. 2. West of the Jordan.—The portionof the half tribe of Manasseh on thewest of the Jordan extended from theMediterranean to the Jordan, and laybetween Asher and Issachar on the northand Ephraim on the south. Josh. 17 : 7-10. They also gained some towns inCarmel within the bounds of Issachar,probably by capturing them from theancient Canaanites. Josh. 17 : 11-18.
A dictionary of the . e half-nomadand herdsmans life led by thisportion of the tribe. Jud. 5:15. The people were powerfuland brave, taking a leadingpart in the wars of Gideon, of Jephthah,and of David. See also Gilead andBashan. 2. West of the Jordan.—The portionof the half tribe of Manasseh on thewest of the Jordan extended from theMediterranean to the Jordan, and laybetween Asher and Issachar on the northand Ephraim on the south. Josh. 17 : 7-10. They also gained some towns inCarmel within the bounds of Issachar,probably by capturing them from theancient Canaanites. Josh. 17 : dominant position of Ephraim seems 542 to have obscured the power of Manasseh,and this portion of their country is fre-quently joined with Ephraim in thebiblical allusions. For further noticesee Palestine and Samaria. MANASSITES, THE, descend-ants of Manasseh the patriarch. : 43 : Jud. 12 : 4 : 2 Kgs. 10 : 33. MANDRAKES (Heb. love-plants).Modern Bible scholars apply this nameto a member of the potato family [Man-. Mandrake. (Atropa Mandragora. After Tristram.) dragora officinalis). This is a stem-less plant with a disk of leaves almostas long, but not nearly as broad, as thoseof the garden rhubarb, which it some-what resembles, except in its are of a rich purple, and, appear-ing among the leaves very early, arefollowed about wheat-harvest by a roundyellow pulpy fruit of the size of a largeplum and of a sweet and agi-eeableflavor. The odor of the plant seems tobe enjoyed by Orientals, Cant. 7 : 13,and by some Occidentals. Many strangesuperstitions are connected with this MAN MAN plant, and the idea of Rachels time stillprevails that conception is ensured byeating the fruit of this plant. Gen. 30 :14-16. MANEH. See Measures. MANNA (Heb. what is this ?), a sub-stance miraculously furnished to thechildren of Israel on their journeythrough the wilderness, and designed asa substitute for bread, the material forwhich they could not raise during theirwanderi
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