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Metheg-ammah
Bridle of the mother, a figurative name for a chief city, as in 2 Sam 8:1, “David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines” (R.V., “took the bridle of the mother-city”); i.e., subdued their capital or strongest city, viz., Gath (1 Chr 18:1).
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- 2 Samuel 8:1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
