Maccabees
/ˈmækəbiːz/ name, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 plural of Maccabee form-of, plural
Proper Noun
- 1 One of two books of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
- 2 A Jewish liberation movement who fought for, and established, independence in the Land of Israel during the second and first centuries BCE. historical
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More examples"On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees."