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(Heb. Mibchar', îַáְçָø , choice, as in Isa_22:7, etc.; Sept. ÌáâÜñ v.r. ÌåâáÜë ), a Hagarene (“son of Haggeri”), one of David's famous warriors (1Ch_11:38); apparently the same called in the parallel passage (2Sa_23:36) BANI the Gadite. B.C. 1046. SEE DAVID. “It is easy to see, if the latter be the true reading, how áָּðַé äִâָּãַé , Bani hag-gadi, could be corrupted into áֶּïàּäִâְּøַé , ben-hag-geri; and äâãé is actually the reading of three of Kennicott's MSS. in 1 Chronicles, as well as of the Syriac and Arabic versions, and the Targum of R. Joseph. But that ‘Mibhar' is a corruption of îַöֹּáָä (or îöáà , ace. to some MSS.), mitstsobah, ‘of Zobah,' as Kennicott (Dissert. p. 215) and Cappellus (Crit. Sacr. i,c. 5) conclude, is not so clear, though not absolutely impossible. It would seem from the Sept. of 2 Samuel, where instead of Zobah we find ðïëõäõíÜìåùò , that both readings originally co-existed, and were read by the Sept. îַáְçִø äִöָּáָà , -mibchar hats-tsaba, ‘choice of the host.' If this were the case, the verse in .1 Chronicles would stand thus: ‘Igal the brother of Nathan, flower of the host; Bani the Gadite.'”