Maccabees

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Maccabees

  1. Plural form of Maccabee.

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Maccabees

  1. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament Apocrypha.
  2. (history) A Jewish liberation movement who fought for, and established, independence in the Land of Israel during the second and first centuries BC.

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