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Strong's #4353 - מָכִיר
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Machir = “sold”
1) eldest son of Manasseh by an Aramite or Syrian concubine and progenitor of a large family
2) son of Ammiel, a powerful chief of one of the Transjordanic tribes who rendered essential services to Saul and to David
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1 eldest son of Manasseh; — Genesis 50:23; Numbers 26:29 (twice in verse); Numbers 27:1; Numbers 32:39,40; Numbers 36:1; Deuteronomy 3:15; Joshua 13:31 (twice in verse); Joshua 17:1,3, compare 1 Chronicles 1:21,23; 1 Chronicles 7:14,15,16,17; see also Judges 5:14 (poetry) where = Manasseh.
2 son of `Ammiel 2 Samuel 9:4,5; 2 Samuel 17:27.
מָכִיר (“sold”), [Machir], pr.n. m.
(1) a son of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, Genesis 50:23 hence poetically used of the tribe of Manasseh, Judges 5:14.
(2) 2 Samuel 9:4, 2 Samuel 9:5, 17:27. Hence patron. מָכִירִי Numbers 26:29.