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    Mahlon

    MAH-lon

    Hebrew
    Boy
    In the King James Bible
    Meaning
    Sickness; Weak; Infirm
    Origin
    Hebrew
    Is it in the Bible?
    Yes — Mahlon appears in the King James Bible, including Ruth 4:10.
    First appears in
    Ruth — Conquest and judges
    Peak US usage
    1880s (0.008% of births), currently steady
    Spiritual meaning
    Mahlon — named 'sickness' — died young in a foreign land. Yet his brief marriage to Ruth connected a Moabite gleaner to the royal line of David. No life is too short or too small for God to use eternally.
    King James verses
    • Ruth 4:10

      "Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off."

    • Ruth 1:2

      "And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah."

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