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Numbers 26:29 KJV
Numbers · chapter 26 · verse 29
Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.Numbers 26:29 · King James Version
Numbers 26:29 in context
27These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
28The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
29Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.
30These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
31And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- MachiritesMâkîyrîya Makirite or descendant of MakirH4354 →
- ManassehMᵉnashshehMenashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe descended from him, and its territoryH4519 →
- MachirMâkîyrMakir, an IsraeliteH4353 →
- familymishpâchâha familyH4940 →
- GileadGilʻâdGilad, a region East of the JordanH1568 →
- begatyâladto bear youngH3205 →
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This is the register of the tribes as they were now enrolled, in the same order that they were numbered in ch. 1. Observe, I. The account that is here kept of the families of each tribe, which must not be understood of such as we call families, those that live in a house together, but such as were the descendants of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-51