Anonymous ID: c23156 June 28, 2021, 9:46 a.m. No.14006135   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6197

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The word Maccabee has become synonymous with the small band of Jewish freedom fighters who freed Judea from the Syrian-Greek occupiers during the Chanukah saga in the Second Temple period (read about the Maccabees here).

 

This term originally applied only to Judah, who led the group following the death of his father, Matityahu, and is referred to in early writings as “Judah Maccabee” (Judas Maccabeus in Greek).1

 

The name is commonly spelled מכבי, but sometimes מקבי as well. What does it mean?

 

“Who Is Like G‑d?”

 

Perhaps the best known explanation is that the word “Maccabee” is composed of the initial letters of a verse the Jewish people sang after G‑d split the sea: “Mi kamocha ba’eilim Hashem (מי כמוך באילים י׳), “Who is like You among the mighty, O G‑d.”2

 

It is said that this phrase was the battle cry of Maccabees, written upon their banners and shields…

 

https://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/3860786/jewish/What-Does-Maccabee-Mean.htm

Anonymous ID: c23156 June 28, 2021, 9:52 a.m. No.14006197   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6211

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Mighty or Hammer

Some explain that the word “Maccabee” is related to the Greek word meaning “strong” or “fighter.”

 

Others explain that it comes from the Hebrew word for “hammer,” makav, either because Judah was the “hammer of G‑d,” his features somewhat resembled that of a hammer, or because his earlier occupation was that of a blacksmith.

 

Extinguisher

Some suggest that it comes from the word Hebrew word mekabeh, which means “to extinguish.” The Maccabees endeavored to snuff outthe fire of the Greeks, which spread death and desolation throughout the land of Israel.