Mahavite
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
1 Chronicles 11:46. It is plural in Hebrew, from whence Kennicott conjectures the true reading is "from the Hivites."
Morrish Bible Dictionary [2]
Designation of Eliel, one of David's mighty men. Its signification is unknown. 1 Chronicles 11:46 .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(Hebrew only in the plur. Machavim', מִחֲיַים , Reviving; Sept. Μαωείν v. r. Μαωϊ v,Vulg. Mahumites, Auth.Vers. "Mahavite;" probably by erroneous transcription for the sing. מִחֲוַי ) , apparently a patrial attribute of Eliel, one of David's body-guard ( 1 Chronicles 11:46); but no place or person Mahavah or Mahavai is anywhere else alluded to from which the title could have been derived. There is doubtless some corruption in the text. "The Targum has דְמַן מִחֲוָוא , ‘ from Machavua.' Kennicott ( Dissert. p.231) conjectures that originally the Hebrew may have stood מהחוים , ‘ from the Hivites.' Others have proposed to insert an N and read ‘ the Mahanaimite' (Furst, Handwb. p. 721 a; Bertheau, Chronik. p. 136)."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
mā´ha - vı̄t ( מחוים , maḥăwı̄m , "villagers"): The description given to Eliel, one of David's warrior guard ( 1 Chronicles 11:46 ), perhaps to distinguish him from the Eliel in the next verse. Massoretic Text is very obscure here.
