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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36515" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36515" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> '''1.''' Manasseh's oldest son by a [[Syrian]] or Aramite concubine ( 1 Chronicles 7:14). [[Joseph]] had Machir's children upon his knees ( Genesis 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 ( Numbers 32:39; Deuteronomy 3:15). The rest of the family crossed Jordan. So powerful was the family that "Machir" supplants the name of "Manasseh" in Judges 5:14; Judges 5:17; Joshua 13:31-29. </p> <p> '''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]] ( 2 Samuel 9:4; 2 Samuel 17:27-29). </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42231" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42231" /> == | ||
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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73785" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73785" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> '''Ma'chir.''' (sold). </p> <p> 1. The eldest son, Joshua 17:1, of the patriarch Manasseh , by an Aramite or Syrian concubine. 1 Chronicles 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. Numbers 32:39; Deuteronomy 3:15. </p> <p> 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. 2 Samuel 9:4-5; 2 Samuel 17:27-29. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67478" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67478" /> == | ||
<p> 1. Eldest son of Manasseh, and father of Gilead. His descendants were warlike and were the foremost in the tribe. Genesis 50:23; Numbers 26:29; Numbers 32:39,40; Joshua 17:1,3; Judges 5:14; 1 Chronicles 2:21,23; 1 Chronicles 7:14-17 . </p> <p> | <p> 1. Eldest son of Manasseh, and father of Gilead. His descendants were warlike and were the foremost in the tribe. Genesis 50:23; Numbers 26:29; Numbers 32:39,40; Joshua 17:1,3; Judges 5:14; 1 Chronicles 2:21,23; 1 Chronicles 7:14-17 . </p> <p> 2. Son of Ammiel: he gave refuge to [[Mephibosheth]] and sent supplies to David when he fled from Absalom. 2 Samuel 9:4,5; 2 Samuel 17:27 . </p> | ||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32571" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32571" /> == | ||
<li> A descendant of the preceding, residing at Lo-debar, where he maintained Jonathan's son Mephibosheth till he was taken under the care of David ( 2 Samuel 9:4 ), and where he afterwards gave shelter to David himself when he was a fugitive (17:27). <div> <p> | <li> A descendant of the preceding, residing at Lo-debar, where he maintained Jonathan's son Mephibosheth till he was taken under the care of David ( 2 Samuel 9:4 ), and where he afterwards gave shelter to David himself when he was a fugitive (17:27). <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated [[Bible]] Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Machir'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/m/machir.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16588" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16588" /> == | ||
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== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48119" /> == | == Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48119" /> == | ||
<p> The son of Manasseh, | <p> The son of Manasseh, Genesis 50:23. The name signifies, he that sells. There was another of the same name, 2 Samuel 9:5. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_49190" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_49190" /> == | ||
<p> (Heb. hakir', | <p> (Heb. hakir', מָכַיר, sold; Sept. Μαχείρ and Μαχίρ ), the name of two men. </p> <p> '''1.''' The oldest son of Manasseh ( Joshua 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, Numbers 26:29), being the offspring of Gilead ( 1 Chronicles 7:17), whose posterity settled in the land taken from the [[Amorites]] ( Numbers 32:39-40; Deuteronomy 3:15; Joshua 13:31; 1 Chronicles 2:23), but required a special enactment as to their inheritance, owing to the fact that the grandson [[Zelophehad]] had only daughters ( Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:1; Joshua 17:3). Once the name of Machir is put poetically as a representative of the tribe of Manasseh east ( Judges 5:14). His daughter became the mother of [[Segub]] by [[Hezron]] in his old age ( 1 Chronicles 2:21). The mother of Machir was an Aramitess, and his wife was Maachah, the granddaughter of Benjamin, by whom he had several sons ( 1 Chronicles 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' ( Joshua 13:31), with its rich mountain pastures, and the towns of [[Ashtaroth]] and Edrei, the capitals of Og's kingdom ( Numbers 32:39-40; Deuteronomy 3:15; Joshua 13:31; Joshua 17:1). The warlike renown of the family of Machir is given as the reason for this grant ( Joshua 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]] ( 2 Samuel 2:8); and that with [[Judah]] may have also influenced David to go so far north when driven out of his kingdom." </p> <p> '''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 ( 2 Samuel 9:4-5), and afterwards extended his hospitality to the fugitive monarch himself ( 2 Samuel 17:27). B.C. 1037-1023. [[Josephus]] calls him the chief of the country of Gilead (Ant. 7:9, 8). (See [[David]]). </p> | ||
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