Machir: meaning of the name

Machir in Hebrew and Greek

People named Machir in the Bible

• Machir, son of Manasseh

  17 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 50:23 · Tribe of Joseph

• Machir, son of Ammiel

  3 verses · first mentioned in 2 Samuel 9:4

Machir in Scripture

“Machir” appears in 20 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 50:23

  And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

• Numbers 26:29

  Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

• Numbers 27:1

  Then came 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

  And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

• Numbers 32:40

  And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

• Numbers 36:1

  And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

• Deuteronomy 3:15

  And I gave Gilead unto Machir.

• Joshua 13:31

  And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.