Dict: smith - MACHIR

smith:

MACHIR - M>@ - (sold). The eldest son, kjv@Joshua:17:1) of the patriarch Manasseh by an Aramite or Syrian concubine. ( kjv@1Chronicles:7:14) At the time of the conquest the family of Machir had become very powerful, and a large part of the country on the east of Jordan was subdued by them. kjv@Numbers:32:39 kjv@Numbers:3:15) The son of Ammiel, a powerful sheikh of one of the transjordanic tribes, who rendered essential service to the cause of Saul and of David successively. (2 Samuel kjv@9:4-5; 17:27-29)

MACHIRITES, THE - M>@ - the descendants of Machir the father of Gilead. kjv@Numbers:26:29)