Hebrew word · H4354

מָכִירִי

hamakhiri

Machirite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Someone descended from Machir who was a man of the tribe of Manasseh living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.50.23;

son of: Manasseh (H4519) and Aramitess (H0761);

brother of: Asriel (H0844H); married to Maacah (H4601M);

father of: Gilead (H1568H), daughter_of_Machir (H4353I), Peresh (H6570), Sheresh (H8329) and Hammolecheth (H4447); also called in NIV: Makir

Group of ma.khir (מָכִיר "Machir" H4353)

§ Machirites = "a salesman"

the descendants of Machir the father of Gilead

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 26:29 הַמָּכִירִ֔י the Makirite[s]

    These were the descendants of Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead, and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

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