Definitions for Maccabees

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Maccabees Mac·ca·bees

Spelling: [mak-uh-beez]

IPA: /ˈmæk əˌbiz/

Maccabees is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in Maccabees (aabcceems).

Definitions for Maccabees

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) the members of the Hasmonean family of Jewish leaders and rulers comprising the sons of Mattathias and their descendants and reigning in Judea from 167? to 37 b.c., especially Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, who defeated the Syrians under Antiochus IV in 165? and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
2. (used with a singular verb) either of two books of the Apocrypha, I Maccabees or II Maccabees, that contain the history of the Maccabees.

Examples for Maccabees

All this is strongly emphasised in the narrative of the Book of Maccabees.

Mrs. Burns: I bring you the welcome of the 45,000 Ladies of the Maccabees.

It is called Gerusia, or Senate, in the second book of Maccabees.

Have a happy Hannukah, but please remember: don't let the Maccabees win.

Before the time of the Maccabees there was no canon of sacred books.

We may also understand it as five angels, who were sent by God to the assistance of the Maccabees.

I put my heart and soul into my screenplay about the Maccabees for deeply personal reasons.

True, the Maccabees were defending the God of Torah and Law.

He was asked to write the screenplay for a Mel Gibson film about the Maccabees.

I promise you in the spirit of the Maccabees, we will not allow Iran to receive a military nuclear capability.