Bible Dictionary
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1. (lord), a country or nation mentioned in (Isaiah 66:19) It is spoken of with distant nations, and is supposed by some to represent the island Phil' in Egypt, and by others Libya.
2. an Assyrian king, and the first Assyrian monarch mentioned in Scripture. He made an expedition against Menahem, king of Isr'l, about B.C. 770. (2 Kings 15:19)
3. the title of p, 53, and Mahalath-leannoth, the title of Ps. 88. The meaning of these words is uncertain. The conjecture is that mahalath is a guitar, and that leannoth has reference to the character of the psalm, and might be rendered "to humble or afflict," in which sense the root occurs in ver. 7.
4. a city "in the district near the wilderness" to which our Lord retired with his disciples when threatened with violence by the priests. (John 11:54)