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Maccabeus

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Mac·ca·be·us also Mac·ca·bae·us  (mk-bs), Judas or Judah Died 160 b.c.
Jewish patriot and most famous member of the Maccabees family. His rededication of the Temple at Jerusalem (164 b.c.) is commemorated by the feast of Hanukkah.


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Well hast thou spoken, Sir Knight,---until the God of Jacob shall raise up for his chosen people a second Gideon, or a new Maccabeus, it ill beseemeth the Jewish damsel to speak of battle or of war.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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