Machir

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selling; knowing
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


MACHIR.—1. The eldest ‘son’ of Manasseh (Jos_17:1), the only son (Num_26:29). Machir was also the ‘father of the Gilead.’ These names are ethnographic, and their use suggests that the Machirites were either coterminous with the tribe of Manasseh (wh. see) or were its most warlike part. Settled on the W. of Jordan, they invaded N. Gilead some time after the days of Deborah, and so became the ‘father of the Gilead.’ 2. Son of Ammiel of Lo-debar on the E. of Jordan. He clung to the house of Saul as long as possible, and afterwards victualled David’s men when that king was fleeing from Ahsalom (2Sa_9:5; 2Sa_17:27).
W. F. Cobb.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


1. Manasseh's oldest son by a Syrian or Aramite concubine (1Ch_7:14). Joseph had Machir's children upon his knees (Gen_50:23), i.e. they were adopted by Joseph from their birth. Gilead was his son, and Abiah his daughter. A large part of the country E. of Jordan was subdued by his powerful family (Num_32:39; Deu_3:15). The rest of the family crossed Jordan. So powerful was the family that "Machir" supplants the name of "Manasseh" in Jdg_5:14; Jdg_5:17; Jos_13:31-29.
2. Son of Ammiel of Lodebar, a Gileadite chief; sheltered Mephibosheth, Jonathan's lame son; afterward, influenced probably by David's kindness to the same youth, supplied David with necessaries when fleeing from Absalom (2Sa_9:4; 2Sa_17:27-29).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Ma'chir. (sold).
1. The eldest son, Jos_17:1, of the patriarch Manasseh , by an Aramite or Syrian concubine. 1Ch_7:14. At the time of the conquest, the family of Machir had become very powerful, and a large part of the country on the east of Jordan was subdued by them. Num_32:39; Deu_3:15.
2. The son of Ammiel, a powerful sheikh of one of the TransJordanic tribes, who rendered essential service to the cause of Saul and of David successively. 2Sa_9:4-5; 2Sa_17:27-29.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


Machir
(Heb. hakir', מָכַיר, sold; Sept. Μαχείρ and Μαχίρ), the name of two men.
1. The oldest son of Manasseh (Jos_17:1), who even had children born to him during the lifetime of Joseph (Genesis 1, 23). B.C. 1802. His descendants were called MACHIRITES (מָכַירי, Sept. Μαχειρί, Num_26:29), being the offspring of Gilead (1Ch_7:17), whose posterity settled in the land taken from the Amorites (Num_32:39-40; Deu_3:15; Jos_13:31; 1Ch_2:23), but required a special enactment as to their inheritance, owing to the fact that the grandson Zelophehad had only daughters (Num_27:1; Num_36:1; Jos_17:3). Once the name of Machir is put poetically as a representative of the tribe of Manasseh east (Jdg_5:14). His daughter became the mother of Segub by Hezron in his old age (1Ch_2:21). The mother of Machir was an Aramitess, and his wife was Maachah, the granddaughter of Benjamin, by whom he had several sons (1Ch_7:14-16). “The family of Machir come forward prominently in the history of the conquest of the trans-Jordanic portion of the Promised Land. In the joint expedition of Israel and Ammon, their warlike prowess expelled the Amoritish inhabitants from the rugged and difficult range of Gilead, and their bravery was rewarded by Moses by the assignment to them of a large portion of the district, ‘half Gilead' (Jos_13:31), with its rich mountain pastures, and the towns of Ashtaroth and Edrei, the capitals of Og's kingdom (Num_32:39-40; Deu_3:15; Jos_13:31; Jos_17:1). The warlike renown of the family of Machir is given as the reason for this grant (Jos_17:1), and we can see the sound policy of assigning a frontier land of so much importance to the safety of the whole country, exposed at the same time to the first brunt of the Syrian and Assyrian invasions, and to the never-ceasing predatory inroads of the wild desert tribes, to a clan whose prowess and skill in battle had been full proved in the subjugation of so difficult a tract (Stanley, S. and Pal. p. 327).” “The connection with Benjamin may perhaps have led to the selection by Abner of Maahanaim, which lay on the boundary between Gad and Mansasseh, as the residence of Ishbosheth (2Sa_2:8); and that with Judah may have also influenced David to go so far north when driven out of his kingdom.”
2. A descendant of the preceding, son of Ammiel, residing at Lo-debar, who maintained the lame son of Jonathan until provision was made for him by David's care (2Sa_9:4-5), and afterwards extended his hospitality to the fugitive monarch himself (2Sa_17:27). B.C. 1037-1023. Josephus calls him the chief of the country of Gilead (Ant. 7:9, 8). SEE DAVID.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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