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Maachah

wife of Machir

Wife of Machir son of Manasseh, named in the tribal genealogy of 1 Chronicles 7 as the mother of Peresh and Sheresh.

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Maachah is named in 1 Chronicles 7 as the wife of , son of , and as the mother of Peresh and Sheresh. The passage belongs to the genealogy of Manasseh's tribe, tracing the descendants of Machir who settled in . Maachah's sons and their descendants are listed as part of the Manassite tribal record, but no narrative details about Maachah herself appear beyond her identity as Machir's wife and the mother of his sons.

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