(oppression)

1. The daughter of Nahor by his concubine Beumah (Genesis 22:24)
2. The father of Achish, who was king of Gath at the beginning of Solomon’s reign (1 Kings 2:39)
3. The daughter, or more probably granddaughter, of Absalom named after his mother, the third and favorite wife of Rehoboam, and mother of Abijah (1 Kings 15:2; 2 Chronicles 11:20-22). The mother of Abijah is elsewhere called “Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah” (2 Chronicles 13:2). During the reign of her grandson Asa she occupied at the court of Judah the high position of “king’s mother” (comp. 1 Kings 15:13), but when he came of age she was removed because of her idolatrous habits (2 Chronicles 15:16).
4. The concubine of Caleb the son of Hezron (1 Chronicles 2:48).
5. The daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (1 Chronicles 3:2), also called Maacah in Authorized Version of 2 Samuel 3:3
6. The wife of Machir the Manassite (1 Chronicles 7:15-16)
7. The wife of Jehiel, father or founder of Gibeon (1 Chronicles 8:29; 9:35)
8. The father of Hanan, one of the heroes of David’s bodyguard (1 Chronicles 11:43)
9. A Simeonite, father of Sephatiah, prince of his tribe in the reign of David (1 Chronicles 27:16)