1 Chronicles 5:15
in 1 Chronicles 5Ahi son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their family.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.
KJV
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites
on 1 Chronicles 5:11-17
Gad settled in Bashan, and verse 17 says the line was reckoned during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel. Barnes reads the double dating as a sign that Judah still held some claim over the tribes east of the Jordan after the kingdom split.
This site's exposition
Ahi son of Abdiel, the
Ahi son of Abdiel was head of the family of the Gadite kinsmen named in verses 13 and 14. A head of a family led his father's house, and Numbers 1:2 to 4 counted the tribes by such families. His genealogy runs back to Guni.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. Which Ahi was a principal man in the families the seven above men belonged to; besides them, or those three, were everyone of them heads of families.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the children of Gad dwelt over against them--The genealogy of the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh (1Ch 5:24) is given along with that of the Reubenites, as these three were associated in a separate colony.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Chief of their clan. [This refers] either to Abdiel or to his father Guni.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֲחִי֙ | ʾachi | Ahi | H277 → | |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עַבְדִּיאֵ֣ל | ʾavdiel | Abdiel | H5661 → | |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| גּוּנִ֔י | guni | Guni | H1476 → | |
| רֹ֖אשׁ | rosh | [was] chief | H7218 → | 599 times |
| לְבֵ֥ית | leveit | of [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ | ʾavotam | ancestors their | H1 → | 1212 times |
אֲחִי֙Ahi
ʾachiH277 →
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
עַבְדִּיאֵ֣לAbdiel
ʾavdielH5661 →
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
גּוּנִ֔יGuni
guniH1476 →
רֹ֖אשׁ[was] chief
roshH7218 →599 times
לְבֵ֥יתof [the] house of
leveitH1004 →2046 times
אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ancestors their
ʾavotamH1 →1212 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, Numbers 1:2 to 4; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).