Dictionary entry

Man-Child

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

man'-child (American Standard Revised Version; "man child," the English Revised Version; not in the King James Version; mashtin beqir): 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 in1Sa 25:22,34;1Ki 14:10;16:11;21:21;2Ki 9:8.