Bible Names

Machbenah: meaning of the name

Machbenah means “Machbanai, poverty; the smiting of his son.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Machbenah in Hebrew and Greek

מַכְבֵּנָא H4343

Makbênâʼ (mak-bay-naw') — Macbena, a place in Palestine settled by him

from the same as H3522 (כַּבּוֹן); knoll;

Places named Machbenah

Machbenah in Scripture

“Machbenah” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:49

    She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.