Definitions for Maccabean

Maccabean Mac·ca·be·an

Spelling: [mak-uh-bee-uh n]
IPA: /ˌmæk əˈbi ən/

Maccabean is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in Maccabean (aaabccemn).

Definitions for Maccabean

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Maccabees or Judas Maccabaeus.

Origin of Maccabean

First recorded in 1815-25; Maccabe(es) + -an

Examples for Maccabean

If that had been the case, there would have been no Maccabean revolt.

He shares the view of the Maccabean age that prophecy is dead.

In the next place he was an upholder of the Maccabean pontificate.

Even the Judeans at the time of the Maccabean revolt could not be immune.

Down to the Maccabean age some books continued to be written in Hebrew.

The neighbourhood of Emmaus was the scene of the second great Maccabean struggle.

Even in this slight incident there may be an allusion to Maccabean days.

Until the Maccabean revolt, he explained, most Jews were content to sleep peacefully in family caves after death.

Was it not here that Judas, the Maccabean, had routed the host of Nicanor?

It ran past Bethzur and Beth-zecharias, famous in Maccabean warfare.

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