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maccabees
Part of speech: NounA heroic Jewish family who freed their nation from the oppression and persecution of the Syrians, and restored the worship of the God of Israel, B. C. 163; the name of four books of the Apocrypha, containing the history of the Maccabean princes, two of which are received into the canon of Scripture by the R. Cath. Ch.
Usage examples "maccabees":- I tried him with the story of the attempt of Antiochus Epiphanes to conquer the Jews, and the glorious rising of all that was living in the Holy Land under the Maccabees. - "Tom Brown at Oxford", Thomas Hughes.
- 1: 10- 22, 24- 63. I. The Character and Contents of I Maccabees. - "The Makers and Teachers of Judaism", Charles Foster Kent.
- Yet the first book of Maccabees was excluded, though written in Hebrew. - "The Canon of the Bible", Samuel Davidson.