מָעוֹן Mâʻôwn

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: Maon, Maonites. Compare H1010 (בֵּית בַּעַל מְעוֹן), H4586 (מְעוּנִי)lemma מְעוּנָי third vowel, corrected to מְעוּנִי.

Derivation: the same as H4583 (מָעוֹן); a residence;

Where it is used

• Joshua 15:55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
• Judges 10:12 Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
• 1 Samuel 23:24 So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
• 1 Samuel 23:25 and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.
• 1 Samuel 25:2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
• 1 Chronicles 2:45 The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.