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1 Chronicles 2:25

in 1 Chronicles 2

The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron were Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.

KJV

And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 2

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And the sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, were Ram the firstborn,.... So called by his father after the name of his brother, see 1Ch 2:9. and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah; or "of Ahijah", as some (r) render it, this being the name of his wife, who bare him the sons before named, since mention is made of another wife in the next verse. (r) Junius, Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis.

This site's exposition

the firstborn of Hezron

on 1 Chronicles 2:25-41

Jerahmeel's branch runs in bare names, and the notice that a son died without children marks a line that goes no further. It ends in Sheshan, and Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, an Egyptian, and she bore Attai.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

And Ahijah - There is no “and” in the original. Hence, some would read: “the sons” were born “of” or “from Ahijah,” the first wife of Jerahmeel (see the next verse).

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּהְי֧וּand they were

    vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • בְנֵי־[the] sons of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְרַחְמְאֵ֛לJerahmeel

    yerachmeelH3396 →8 times

  • בְּכ֥וֹר[the] firstborn of

    bekhorH1060 →122 times

  • חֶצְר֖וֹןHezron

    chetzronH2696 →18 times

  • הַבְּכ֣וֹר׀the firstborn

    habekhorH1060 →122 times

  • רָ֑םRam

    ramH7410 →7 times

  • וּבוּנָ֥הand Bunah

    uvunahH946 →

  • וָאֹ֛רֶןand Oren

    vaorenH767 →

  • וָאֹ֖צֶםand Ozem

    vaotzemH684 →

  • אֲחִיָּֽה׃Ahijah

    ʾachiyahH281 →24 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.