1 Chronicles 4:38 BSB

1 Chronicles 4:38

These men listed by name were the leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly,

BSB

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ASV

these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

KJV

These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

These mentioned by their names were princes - The registered chiefs of the cities in the first list 1Ch 4:28-31, in the time of Hezekiah 1Ch 4:41.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֵ֚לֶּה	'E.leh	these	H428 →
הַבָּאִ֣ים	ha.ba.'Im	who came	H935 →
בְּשֵׁמ֔וֹת	be.she.Mot	by names	H8034 →
נְשִׂיאִ֖ים	ne.si.'Im	[were] leaders	H5387 →
בְּמִשְׁפְּחוֹתָ֑ם	be.mish.pe.cho.Tam	in clans their	H4940 →
וּבֵית֙	u.Veit	and [the] house of	H1004 →
אֲב֣וֹתֵיהֶ֔ם	'a.Vo.tei.Hem	ancestors their	H1 →
פָּרְצ֖וּ	pa.re.Tzu	they spread out	H6555 →
לָרֽוֹב׃	la.Rov	to abundance	H7230 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of…
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- Numbers 13:33
  We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
- 1 Samuel 17:4
  Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,
- 2 Samuel 21:15–22
  Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.
- Deuteronomy 3:11
  (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
- Deuteronomy 2:20–21
  (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

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02Original language & word study

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04Related verses

06About 1 Chronicles

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About 1 Chronicles