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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
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King James Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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• White, Robert Meadows, D.D.
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• אָחוּ
• כַּר כַּר, , כַּר
• מַעֲרֶה
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Meadow.

1. In Genesis 41:2; Genesis 41:18, meadow appears to be an Egyptian term meaning some kind of flag or waterplant, as its use in Job 8:11, (Authorized Version, "flag"), seems to show.

2. In Judges 20:33, the sense of the Hebrew word translated meadow is doubly uncertain. The most plausible interpretation is that of the Peshito-Syriac, which by a slight difference in the vowel-points makes the word mearah, "the cave".