Limitless Word
מָעוֹןMâʻôwn/maw-ohn'/
HebrewH45848 occurrences (KJV)

Maon, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine

KJV renders it: Maon, Maonites. Compare H1010 (בֵּית בַּעַל מְעוֹן), H4586 (מְעוּנִי)lemma מְעוּנָי third vowel, corrected to מְעוּנִי.

Where it appears(showing the first 6 of 8)

  • Josh 15:55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
  • Judg 10:12The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
  • 1 Sam 23:24They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
  • 1 Sam 23:25Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
  • 1 Sam 25:2There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
  • 1 Chr 2:45The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.