1. A son of Manasseh, Genesis 50:23. His posterity were active in the conquest of Gilead, Numbers 32:39; Joshua 17:1; and in the war with Jabin and Sisera, Judges 5:14.

2. A friend of Mephibosbeth, the son of Jonathan, 2 Samuel 9:4,5.

Sold. Manasseh's oldest son (Joshua 17:1), or probably his only son (see 1 Chronicles 7:14,15; Compare Numbers 26:29-33; Joshua 13:31). His descendants are referred to under the name of Machirites, being the offspring of Gilead (Numbers 26:29). They settled in land taken from the Amorites (Numbers 32:39,40; Deuteronomy 3:15) by a special enactment (Numbers 36:1-3; Joshua 17:3,4). He is once mentioned as the representative of the tribe of Manasseh east of Jordan (Judges 5:14).

A descendant of the preceding, residing at Lo-debar, where he maintained Jonathan's son Mephibosheth till he was taken under the care of David (2 Samuel 9:4), and where he afterwards gave shelter to David himself when he was a fugitive (17:27).

(sold ). The eldest son, (Joshua 17:1) of the patriarch Manasseh by an Aramite or Syrian concubine. (1 Chronicles 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. (Numbers 32:39; 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 9:4,5; 17:27-29)