man´chı̄ld (American Standard Revised Version; "man child," the English Revised Version; not in the King James Version; בּקיר משׁתּין , mashtı̄n beḳı̄r ): The expression is used with the meaning of "male," but is found only in the description of the extermination of a whole family, where it is employed to express every male descendant of any age. It occurs in 1 Samuel 25:22 , 1 Samuel 25:34; 1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 16:11; 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8 .
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source-manifest/isbe— ISBE (PD)