mahershalalhashbaz

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mahershalalhashbaz - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Maher-shalal-hash-baz
  plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, (Isa. 8:1-3; comp. Zeph. 1:14),
  a name Isaiah was commanded first to write in large characters
  on a tablet, and afterwards to give as a symbolical name to a
  son that was to be born to him (Isa. 8:1, 3), as denoting the
  sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the Assyrian army.