Person Old Testament
Maacah
Also known as Maacah =ESV; Maakah =NIV; Maachah =KJV
Maacah, the mother of Kish, the father of Saul. Mentioned in 2 verses across 1 book, first at 1 Chronicles 8:29.
Why it matters. Grandmother of Saul
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Maacah
Maacah was the wife of a man variously called Jeiel and elsewhere called Abiel or Ner (1Ch.8.29; 9.35). He is mentioned in the genealogy of Benjamin, specifically in the line of Saul. Her husband re-established Gibeon as an important city and religious centre.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Spouse
- Abiel
Appears in Scripture
Named in 2 verses across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.