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(Hebrew only in the plur. Machavim', îִçֲéַéí , reviving; Sept. Ìáùåßí v. r. Ìáùú v,Vulg. Mahumites, Auth.Vers. “Mahavite;” probably by erroneous transcription for the sing. îִçֲåַé ), apparently a patrial attribute of Eliel, one of David's body-guard (1Ch_11:46); but no place or person Mahavah or Mahavai is anywhere else alluded to from which the title could have been derived. There is doubtless some corruption in the text. “The Targum has ãְîַï îִçֲåָåà , ‘from Machavua.' Kennicott (Dissert. p.231) conjectures that originally the Hebrew may have stood îäçåéí , ‘from the Hivites.' Others have proposed to insert an N and read ‘ the Mahanaimite' (Furst, Handwb. p. 721 a; Bertheau, Chronik. p. 136).”