chosen; youth
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MIBHAR.In 1Ch_11:38 one of Davids heroes appears as Mibhar the son of Hagri. The parallel passage 2Sa_23:36 reads, of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, which is probably the correct text.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Son of Haggert (1Ch_11:38), probably a corruption for 2Sa_23:36, "of Zobah, Bani the Gadite." Septuagint seemingly read, "Igal the brother of Nathan, flower of the host; Bani the Gadite."
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mib'har. (choicest). One of David's heroes, in the list given in 1Ch_11:38.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mib?har (מבחר, mibhḥār, ?choice?(?)): According to 1Ch_11:38, the name of one of David's heroes. No such name, however, occurs in the parallel passage (2Sa_23:36). A comparison of the two records makes it probable that mibhḥar is a corruption of miccōbhāh = ?from Zobah,? which completes the designation of the former name, Nathan of Zobah. The concluding words of the verse, Ben-Hagrı̄ = ?the son of Hagri,? will then appear as a misreading of Bānı̄ ha-gādhı̄ = ?Bani, the Gadite,? thus bringing the two records into accord.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Mibhar
(Heb. Mibchar', מַבְחָר, choice, as in Isa_22:7, etc.; Sept. Μαβάρ v.r. Μεβαάλ), a Hagarene (son of Haggeri), one of David's famous warriors (1Ch_11:38); apparently the same called in the parallel passage (2Sa_23:36) BANI the Gadite. B.C. 1046. SEE DAVID. It is easy to see, if the latter be the true reading, how בָּנַי הִגָּדַי, Bani hag-gadi, could be corrupted into בֶּןאּהִגְּרַי, ben-hag-geri; and הגדי is actually the reading of three of Kennicott's MSS. in 1 Chronicles, as well as of the Syriac and Arabic versions, and the Targum of R. Joseph. But that Mibhar' is a corruption of מַצֹּבָה (or מצבא, ace. to some MSS.), mitstsobah, of Zobah,' as Kennicott (Dissert. p. 215) and Cappellus (Crit. Sacr. i,c. 5) conclude, is not so clear, though not absolutely impossible. It would seem from the Sept. of 2 Samuel, where instead of Zobah we find πολυδυνάμεως, that both readings originally co-existed, and were read by the Sept. מַבְחִר הִצָּבָא, -mibchar hats-tsaba, choice of the host.' If this were the case, the verse in .1 Chronicles would stand thus: Igal the brother of Nathan, flower of the host; Bani the Gadite.'
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.