Maccabees

  1. Noun.  (plural of, Maccabee) .
  2. Proper noun.  (biblical) A book of the Old Testament Apocrypha.
  3. Proper noun.  (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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