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Mekonah

MEKONAH, or Mochona, a City of the Tribe of Judah; Nehem. xi. 28. probably the same as Mechanum, which St. Jerome places between Eleutheropolis and Jerusalem, at eight Miles from the first of these Cities¹.

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Hier. in locis and Bethmaca. º Clem. Alex. l. iv. Strom. Cyprian. l. ii. Ep. iii. ad Cæcil. Eufeb. Cæsar. Dem. l. v. c. 3. Ambros. l. v. Sacram. c. i. & alii plerique Patrum & Interp. Consule si placet Bellarm. l. i. de missa, c. 6. ↩

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Mekonah,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/m/mekonah/.