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Gilead

Mentioned 1469–1442 BC traditional (Jones)

Son of Machir. Mentioned in 11 verses, first in Numbers 26:29.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

Father
Machir
Children
Abiezer, Asriel, Helek, Hepher, Shechem, Shemida
Siblings
Daughter of Machir, Hammoleketh, Peresh, Sheresh
Tagged in
11 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Gilead, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. location not graded: West Manasseh2
  2. location not graded: Aram1
  3. location not graded: Bashan1
  4. location not graded: Geshur1
  5. location not graded: Gilead1
  6. location not graded: Havvoth-jair1
  7. likely location: Kenath1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1494–1417 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

11 tagged verses in 4 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Numbers4
  2. Joshua2
  3. Judges1
  4. 1 Chronicles4

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBGilead 96
KJVGilead 101
ASVGilead 100

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Every verse

All 11 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Numbers4 verses
  1. 26:29

    These were the descendants of Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead, and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

  2. 26:30

    These were the descendants of Gilead: the Iezerite clan from Iezer, the Helekite clan from Helek,

  3. 27:1

    Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached

  4. 36:1

    Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families and addressed them,

Joshua2 verses
  1. 17:1

    Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.

  2. 17:3

    But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh) had no sons but only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Judges1 verse
  1. 11:2

    And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”

1 Chronicles4 verses
  1. 2:21

    Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub.

  2. 2:23

    But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

  3. 7:14

    The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel through his Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead.

  4. 7:17

    The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.