Bible Person
Meaning: selling; knowing · Male · 17 cross references
Machir is the firstborn of Manasseh and the ancestor of a major branch of the tribe associated with Gilead and territory east of the Jordan. His name carries tribal and territorial weight more than dramatic personal narrative. First appears in Gen 50:23.1
AI summary: Machir matters because the cross references connect him to the shaping of Manasseh's inheritance and eastern settlement. His descendants, especially through Gilead, become important in census lists, inheritance questions, and the distribution of transjordanian land. This makes his name significant in the Bible's map as well as its genealogies. Taken together, the material presents Machir as a foundational ancestral figure whose legacy is embedded in tribal geography, land rights, and remembered lineage.1
Central Figure
Machir
Meaning: selling; knowing
Manasseh’s oldest son (Josh.
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). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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.