The Book of 1 Meqabyan

1 Meqabyan (also known as 1 Ethiopian Maccabees and 1 Ethiopic Maccabees) is canonical scripture for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. While “Meqabyan” is the Ge’ez equivalent of “Maccabees,” the content is completely different from 1 Maccabees. The only complete copies of 1 Meqabyan are available in Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic), here used with permission by the Bible Society of Ethiopia.

The translation into English was provided by Haileyesus Woldemariam (UBS).

jealous / jealousy

The Hebrew, Greek and Ge’ez that is typically translated as “jealous” or “jealousy” in English is translated in Newari as “bursting of the heart” (source: Newari Back Translation) and in KekchΓ­ as “heart becoming red” (source: Eachus 2006, p. 263).