Maher-shalal-hash-baz

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Maher-shalal-hash-baz
     plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, (Isa. 8:1-3; comp. Zeph. 1:14),
     a name Isaiah was commanded first to write in large characters
     on a tablet, and afterwards to give as a symbolical name to a
     son that was to be born to him (Isa. 8:1, 3), as denoting the
     sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the Assyrian army.


     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Maher-shalal-hash-baz, making speed to the spoil; he hastens to the prey