Machar, Jonx, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Brechin, Scotland, in 1798. He was educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and afterwards at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh. On receiving license to preacli, he became assistant to the parish minister, and in 1828 emigrated to Canada, and took charge of the Church in Kingston, C. \V. In 1833 he was moderator of the synod; and at a meeting of lay delegates, assembled from all parts of the province, he was nominated com- missioner to proceed to Britain, and attend to the inter- ests of the Canadian branch of the Church of Scotland in one of the crises of her history. From 1846 to 1853 he Avas acting principal of Queen's College, Kingston, iti which institution, during several sessions, he taught th? Hebrew classes, and examined the candidates for license in the Oriental tongues. He died Feb. 7, 1863. Dr. Machar's attainments both in sacred and secular learn- ing were exact and varied; he was familiar with English literature, and could read with ease Hebrew, Greek, and the modern languages. He was always a close student, an earnest preacher, and a faithful pastor. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1864, p. 388. (J. L. S.)
Machault, Jacques, a French Jesuit, was bom at Paris in 1600 ; entered the order at eighteen, and af- terwards taught ethics and philosophj^, and was rector at AlenQon, Orleans, and Caen. He died in 1680 at Paris. His -works are, De Missionibus Paragiiarice ei cdiis in America meridionali (Paris, 1636, 8vo) : — De Re- bus Japonicis (Paris, 1646, 8vo) : — De Regno Cochinchi- nensi (Paris, 1652, 8vo) : — De Missionibus in India (Paris, 1659, 8vo) : — De Missionibus religiosornm Soc. Jesu in, Perside (Paris, 1659,8vo) -.—De Regno ]\Iadurensi (Paris, 1663, 8vo\ See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Machault, Jean de, a French Jesuit, was born at Paris Oct. 25, 1561; was admitted iiito the order in 1579 ; became professor of rhetoric at the College de Clermont, Paris, and afterguards rector of the College of Rouen. He died as provincial of Champagne March 25, 1619, at Paris. He publislied In Jacobi Thuani hisioriarum libros notationes lector ibus utiles et necessaries (Ingolstadt, 4to), which was condemned to be burned. See Hoefer, Nuur. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Machault, Jean-Baptiste de, a French schol- ar and Jesuit, nephew of the foregouig, was born at Paris in 1591. He taught rhetoric at Paris, and directed suc- cessively the cf)lleges of Rouen and Xevers. He died at Pontoise May 22, 1640. His works are, among others,
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S.Ansehni Caniuarie?isis archiep. de Felicitate Sancto- rum iJissertatio, ex scriptore Eadimro A nglo, canon. re(j- ulari (Paris, 1639, 8vo) : — Ilistoire des eveques d^Evreux : — Gesta a Soc. Jes. in Regno Sinensi, yEthiopico, et Ti- bet ino. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Mach'banai (Heb. Malchannay', ''233^, binding, or perhaps clad with a mantle ; Sept, Maxal^avai v. r. Me\xal3apat ; Vulg. Machbanui), the eleventh of the Gadite braves who joined David's troop in the wilder- ness of Adullam (1 Chron. xii, 13). B.C. cir. 1061.
Mach'beiiah {W^h. Makbena' , i<3!32^, something bound on, perh. a cloak; Sept. ^ln\a[3i]i'd v. r. Ma^a- l^nji'd ; Viilg. Machhena), apparently a place in the tribe of Judah founded by (a person of that name, the son of) Sheva (1 Chron. ii, 49), and probably situated in the vicinity of Gibeah, in connection with which it is men- tioned. It is thought to have been the same with Cab- BON (Josh. XV, -40).
Machet, Gerard or Girard, a French cardinal, confessor of Charles VII, was born at Blois in 1380 ; en- tered the College de Navarre, Paris, in 1391 ; was made doctor of divinity in 1411; attached himself to the Col- lege de Navarre as professor, was made vice-chancellor of that institution, and as such adtlressed the emperor Sigis- mond in 1416. Driven from his college by the Burgun- dian invasion (May 30, 1418), he became the confessor of his pupil, the future emperor, Charles VII. He lived a while at Lyons. Machet was one of the clergy who conducted the examination of the Maid of Orleans. His influence in Troves, Cliampagne, was powerful in open- ing that city and province to the army of Charles VII. Machet was successively canon of Paris, Chartres, Tours, and in 1432 bishop of Castres. He died at Tours July 17, 1448. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Ma'chi (Heb. MaW, '''212, smiting; Sept. Mokx/, Vulg. Machi), the father of Geuel, which latter was the commissioner ou the part of the tribe of Gad to explore Canaan (Numb, xiii, 15). B.C. ante 1657.
Ma'chir (Heb. MaUr', T^S'^, sold; Sept. Max«i'p and Ma^ip), the name of two men.
1. The oldest son of Manasseh (Josh, xvii, 1), who even had children born to liim during the lifetime of Jo- seph (Gen. xl, 23). B.C. 1802. His descendants were called Machirites (i^i^to, Sept. MnxfipijNumb.xxvi, 29), being the offspring of Gilead (1 Chron. vii, 17), whose posterity settled in the land taken from the Amorites (Numb, xxxii, 39, 40; Deut. iii, 15; Josh, xiii, 31 ; 1 Chron. ii, 23), but required a special enactment as to their inheritance, owing to the fact that the grandson Zelophehad had only daughters (Numb, xxvii, 1 ; xxxvi, 1 ; Josh, xvii, 3). Once the name of Machir is put po- etically as a representative of the tribe of Manasseh east (Judg. V, 14). His daughter became the mother of Se- gub by Hezron in his old age (1 Chron. ii, 21). The mother of Machir was an Aramitess, and his wife was Maachah, the granddaughter of Benjamin, by whom he had several sons (1 Cliron. vii, 14-16). " The family of Machir come forward prominently in the historj' of the conquest of the trans-Jordanic portion of the Promised Land. In the joint expedition of Israel and Ammon, their warlike prowess expelled the Amoritish inhabit- ants from the rugged and difficult range of Gilead, and their bravery was rewarded by INIoses liy the assignment to them of a large portion of the district, ' half Gilead' (Josli. xiii, 31), with its rich mountain pastures, and the towns of Ashtaroth and Edrei, the capitals of Og's king- dom (Numb, xxxii, 39, 40 ; Deut. iii, 15 ; Josli. xiii. ,31 ; xvii, 1). The warlike renown of the family of ^lachir is given as the reason for this grant (Josh. xvii. 1\ and we can see the sound policy oT assigning a-frontier land of so much importance to the safety of the whole coun- try', exposed at the same time to the first bnnit of the Syrian and AssiiTian invasions, and to the never-ceasing predatory inroads of the wild desert tribes, to a clan