Makkedah [N] [H] [S]. herdsman's place, one of the royal cities of the Canaanites ( Joshua 12:16 ), near which was a cave where the five kings who had ...

Easton's Bible Dictionary. Makkedah. Herdsman's place, one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Joshua 12:16), near which was a cave where the five kings who ...

a royal city of the ancient Canaanites (Jos 12:16), in the neighborhood of which was the cave where the five kings who confederated against Israel took refuge.

MAKKEDAH mək ē' də (מַּקֵּדָ֖ה , Μακηδά; place of herdsmen). A Canaanite royal city taken by Joshua in his battle with the southern confederacy of five kings ...

Makkedah is the place where those kings were found hiding in a cave and then slain. Joshua subsequently took the city of Makkedah and killed its king.

A chief city of the Canaanites, near which five confederate kings were defeated, taken in the cave to which they had fled, and executed.

Makkedah = "place of shepherds" the location of a cave in Judah where Joshua captured and executed five Canaanite kings during the conquest.

Canaanitish city, connected with which was a cave in which the five Amorite kings took refuge on the day of Joshua's victory at Gibeon and Beth-horon.

MAKKEDAH (Heb. מַקֵּדָה), Canaanite city in the Shephelah which marked the farthest limit of the Israelite pursuit of the five kings who united to punish Gibeon ...