Bible Person
Meaning: pressed down; worn; fastened · Female · 2 cross references
This Maachah entry refers to the wife of Abiel in the Benjaminite genealogy repeated in Chronicles. She is preserved as the mother linked to a substantial household line that includes Kish and related descendants. First appears in 1 Chr 8:29.1
AI summary: This Maachah matters because the cross references place her inside the Benjaminite family structures that stand near the ancestry of Saul's wider clan. Her inclusion shows how genealogical memory depends not only on famous sons but also on the named women through whom households are tracked. Taken together, the material presents this Maachah as a maternal anchor in Benjamin's recorded family network.1
Central Figure
Maachah
Meaning: pressed down; worn; fastened
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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.