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Maher-shalal-hash-baz
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
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.
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
making speed to the spoil; he hastens to the prey