1 Chronicles 6:25
in 1 Chronicles 6The descendants of Elkanah:
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ASV
And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
KJV
And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.
This site's exposition
Gershom, Kohath, and Merari
on 1 Chronicles 6:16-30
Kohath's branch is carried furthest, reaching Elkanah and Samuel. For Samuel's sons the Hebrew has Vashni, which Clarke and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read as a copied Hebrew phrase for and the second. Samuel's place in this family explains how a Levite living in Ephraim's hill country could judge Israel.
This site's exposition
The descendants of Elkanah
This Elkanah descends from Kohath through Korah and Assir. His descendants reach Samuel and his father Elkanah in verse 27. Verses 33 to 36 give the same family again in the line of Heman the singer.
The words behind it
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵי֙ | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֶלְקָנָ֔ה | ʾelkanah | Elkanah | H511 → | 21 times |
| עֲמָשַׂ֖י | ʾamasai | Amasai | H6022 → | 5 times |
| וַאֲחִימֽוֹת׃ | vaachimot | and Ahimoth | H287 → |
וּבְנֵי֙and [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
אֶלְקָנָ֔הElkanah
ʾelkanahH511 →21 times
עֲמָשַׂ֖יAmasai
ʾamasaiH6022 →5 times
וַאֲחִימֽוֹת׃and Ahimoth
vaachimotH287 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 6:24The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:22–23
The descendants of Kohath:
- 1 Chronicles 6:27–28
Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.
- 1 Samuel 1:1
Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of…
- Numbers 26:9–11
and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the…
- 1 Chronicles 6:37–38
the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
- 1 Chronicles 6:22–23
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, 1 Chronicles 6:34 to 36; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).