Bible Person
Meaning: the people of God · Male · 3 cross references
Ammiel is remembered as the father of Machir of Lo-debar, the man who shelters Mephibosheth and later supports David in crisis. His significance comes through a household known for generosity and protection. First appears in 2 Sam 9:4.1
AI summary: Ammiel matters because the cross references preserve him through Machir, whose house becomes a place of refuge first for Mephibosheth and later of practical support for David. The patronymic helps locate that faithfulness in a remembered family identity. Taken together, the material presents Ammiel as the remembered father behind a household marked by protection and generosity.1
Central Figure
Ammiel
Meaning: the people of God
The father of Machir of Lo-debar, in whose house Mephibosheth resided (2 Sam.
Children
The father of Machir of Lo-debar, in whose house Mephibosheth resided (2 Sam. 9:4, 5; 17:27). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.