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# מָכִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4353

**Machir** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Machir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4353/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָכִיר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4353/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 𝔊 Μαχειρ (Sab. מכר Hal4). eldest son of Manasseh;—Gn 50:23 Nu 26:29(×2); 27:1; 32:39, 40; 36:1 Dt 3:15 Jos 13:31(×2); 17:1, 3, cf. 1 Ch 2:21, 23; 7:14, 15, 16, 17; v. also Ju 5:14 (poet.) where = Manasseh. son of \`Ammiel 2 S 9:4, 5; 17:27.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Makir (13); Makir (9).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.15/#tree)

וּלְמָכִ֖יר נָתַ֥תִּי אֶת־הַגִּלְעָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and to Makir I.gave (et) (the) Gilead

*JPS 1917:* And I gave Gilead unto Machir.

[1 Chronicles 7:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.17/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י אוּלָ֖ם בְּדָ֑ן אֵ֚לֶּה בְּנֵ֣י גִלְעָ֔ד בֶּן־מָכִ֖יר בֶּן־מְנַשֶּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Ulam \[were\].Bedan these \[were\].the.descendants of.Gilead the.son of.Makir the.son of.Manasseh

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4353.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4353/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).