MAHALATH, I

(Maʹha·lath) [lute, or, perhaps, sickness].

1. Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth and one of the women Esau took as a wife. (Gen. 28:9) She is possibly the same person as the Basemath of Genesis 36:3.

2. A granddaughter of David through his son Jerimoth. She became one of the wives of Rehoboam.—2 Chron. 11:18.