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MESHECH.—1. The name of a people of Asia Minor mentioned after Tubal as among the sons of Japbeth (Gen_10:2). These two peoples, possibly kindred, appear almost always in conjunction in OT; so even in Isa_66:18, where read ‘Meshech’ instead of ‘that draw the bow’ (the word for ‘bow’ being a supplementary gloss). In Psa_12:06 Meshech and Kedar appear as types of barbarous and warlike people, just as Meshech and Tubal are represented in Eze_32:28; Eze_38:2; Eze_39:1. In the Assyrian annals the Tabalî and Mushkî, who are undoubtedly the same as Tuhal and Meshech, are found again together (as fierce opponents of Assyria in the 12th cent. b.c.), the former lying to the north-east of Cilicia and the latter eastward between them and the Euphrates. The Tibareni and Moschi of the classical writers must stand for the same two peoples. Eze_27:13 names them as trading in slaves and articles of bronze.
2. In 1Ch_1:17 ‘Meshech’ is written by mistake for ‘Mash’ (cf. Gen_10:23)
J. F. M‘Curdy.