No pasture, (2 Sam. 17:27), a town in Gilead not far from Mahanaim, north of the Jabbok (9:4, 5). It is probably identical with Debir (Josh. 13:26).
Lo-Debar
David asked a question that sounds simple: “Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him?” The answer led to Lodebar, a place where Jonathan’s son, lame on his feet, was staying in the house of Machir. The name appears only in this story, and the story is about what happens next: the king sends and fetches him out. Nothing is said of the place beyond who lived there. Read 2 Samuel 9 to see why a promise made to Jonathan reaches a man most would have forgotten, and what David does with it.
3 verses
2 Samuel
2 Samuel 9:3
And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.
2 Samuel 9:4
And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.
2 Samuel 9:5
Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(without pasture), a place named with Mahanaim, Rogelim and other transjordanic towns, (2 Samuel 17:27) and therefore no doubt on the east side of the Jordan. It was the native place of Machir-ben-Ammiel. (2 Samuel 9:4,5)