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  • Machir or Makir (Hebrew: מָכִיר Māḵîr, "bartered") was the name of two figures in the Hebrew Bible: Machir was the son of Manasseh, grandson of Joseph...
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    author was Machir ben Abba Mari, but his country and the period in which he lived are not definitively known. Moritz Steinschneider says that Machir lived...
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    Machir Bay is a small bay on the Western coast of the isle of Islay in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is one of the features of the Rhinns of Islay...
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  • Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon (Hebrew: יעקב בן מכיר ׳ן תיבון), of the Ibn Tibbon family, also known as Prophatius, was a Jewish astronomer; born, probably...
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    James Machir (1764 – June 25, 1827) was a United States representative from Virginia. Machir was member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1793 to...
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  • Machir (Hebrew: מָכִיר Makir) was the name of a tribal group mentioned in the Song of Deborah in Judges 5, where it is praised for fighting alongside five...
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  • Moshe ben Machir (or Moshe ben Yehudah haMachiri) was rabbi and kabbalist of Safed who lived in the 16th century. He is primarily known as the author of...
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  • Machir ben Judah was a French Jewish scholar of the tenth and eleventh centuries, born at Metz, and brother of R. Gershom "the Light of the Exile" (Me'or...
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  • Machir or Makir (Hebrew: מָכִיר Māḵîr, "bartered") was the name of two figures in the Hebrew Bible. Machir may also refer to: Machir (biblical region)...
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