מָכִיר
Machir
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4353 appears — 20 distinct verses across 7 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Numbers 5 verses
- Numbers 26:29 לְ/מָכִיר֙ וּ/מָכִ֖יר prep + n Proper conj + n Proper The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
- Numbers 27:1 מָכִ֣יר n Proper Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
- Numbers 32:39 מָכִ֧יר n Proper The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
- Numbers 32:40 לְ/מָכִ֖יר prep + n Proper Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
- Numbers 36:1 מָכִ֣יר n Proper The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel:
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 13:31 מָכִיר֙ מָכִ֖יר n Proper n Proper and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.
- Joshua 17:1 לְ/מָכִיר֩ prep + n Proper [This] was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
- Joshua 17:3 מָכִ֣יר n Proper But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Judges 1 verse
2 Samuel 3 verses
- 2 Samuel 9:4 מָכִ֥יר n Proper The king said to him, Where is he? Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.
- 2 Samuel 9:5 מָכִ֥יר n Proper Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.
- 2 Samuel 17:27 וּ/מָכִ֤יר conj + n Proper It happened, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
1 Chronicles 6 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:21 מָכִיר֙ n Proper Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took [as wife] when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 מָכִ֥יר n Proper Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 7:14 מָכִ֖יר n Proper The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:
- 1 Chronicles 7:15 וּ/מָכִ֞יר conj + n Proper and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
- 1 Chronicles 7:16 מָכִיר֙ n Proper Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
- 1 Chronicles 7:17 מָכִ֖יר n Proper The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, מכיר (Mâkîyr) means “Machir.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 50:23. With 20 verses in 7 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in 1 Chronicles (30% of all occurrences). Dig into 20-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4353 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,412
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,412 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 6 verses 30%
- Numbers 5 verses 25%
- Joshua 3 verses 15%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 20 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 verses · 35%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 35%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 30%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Machir 21×
- American Standard Version: Machir 20×
- Berean Standard Bible: Machir 19×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Machir 14×, Makir 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4353 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4353 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4353 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4353 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. 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. e.g. Genesis 50:23
- 2. son of `Ammiel 2 S 9:4, 5; 17:27. e.g. 2 Samuel 9:4
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. 𝔊 Μαχειρ (Sab. מכר Hal4).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מכר (mâkar) (H4376) — to sell.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מַכִּיר
- , v. נָכַר
מכיר
- , Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXXVIII, read מְכֵירָא, v. מְכֵירִין
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H4353 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָכִיר֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 50:23 | 4 |
| מָכִ֖יר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:14 | 3 |
| מָכִ֣יר | Noun, Proper | Joshua 17:3 | 3 |
| מָכִ֥יר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:23 | 3 |
| וּ/לְ/מָכִ֖יר | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:15 | 1 |
| וּ/מָכִ֖יר | Noun, Proper | Numbers 26:29 | 1 |
| וּ/מָכִ֞יר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 7:15 | 1 |
| וּ/מָכִ֤יר | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 17:27 | 1 |
| לְ/מָכִ֖יר | Noun, Proper | Numbers 32:40 | 1 |
| לְ/מָכִיר֙ | Noun, Proper | Numbers 26:29 | 1 |
| לְ/מָכִיר֩ | Noun, Proper | Joshua 17:1 | 1 |
| מָכִ֗יר | Noun, Proper | Judges 5:14 | 1 |
| מָכִ֧יר | Noun, Proper | Numbers 32:39 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4353, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Machir). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Sold. (1.) Manasseh's oldest son (Josh. 17:1), or probably his only son (see 1 Chr. 7:14, 15; comp. Num. 26:29-33; Josh. 13:31). His descendants are referred to under the name of Machirites, being the offspring of Gilead (Num. 26:29). They settled in land taken from the Amorites (Num. 32:39, 40; Deut. 3:15) by a special enactment (Num. 36:1-3; Josh. 17:3, 4). He is once mentioned as the representative of the tribe of Manasseh east of Jordan (Judg. 5:14).
(2.) 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 Sam. 9:4), and where he afterwards gave shelter to David himself when he was a fugitive (17:27).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(sold).
+ 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; 3:15) + 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; 17:27-29)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
selling; knowing
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 20 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 20 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 50:23
- Numbers 26:29
- Deuteronomy 3:15
- Joshua 13:31
- Judges 5:14
- 2 Samuel 9:4
- 1 Chronicles 2:21
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
