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1 Chronicles 7:33

in 1 Chronicles 7

The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhlet’s sons.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

KJV

And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Here is no account either of Zebulun or Dan. Why they only should be omitted we can assign no reason; only it is the disgrace of the tribe of Dan that idolatry began in that colony of the Danites which fixed in Laish, and called Dan, and there one of the golden calves was set up by Jeroboam.

This site's exposition

The children of Asher

on 1 Chronicles 7:30-40

Asher's record runs three generations after Beriah and closes with 26,000 men fit for battle. Verse 40 calls them choice and mighty men of valor, and chiefs among the leaders. Gill points out that Dan and Zebulun get no entry anywhere in this chapter.

This site's exposition

The sons of Japhlet

Japhlet's three sons close the first branch of Heber's family. The closing line of the verse marks the end of his branch before the sons of Shemer begin in verse 34.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath; these are the children of Japhlet. Of whom we read not elsewhere,

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יַפְלֵ֔טJaphlet

    yafletH3310 →3 times

  • פָּסַ֥ךְPasach

    pasakhH6457 →

  • וּבִמְהָ֖לand Bimhal

    uvimhalH1118 →

  • וְעַשְׁוָ֑תand Ashvath

    veashvatH6220 →

  • אֵ֖לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[were] [the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יַפְלֵֽט׃Japhlet

    yafletH3310 →3 times

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

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 Berean Standard Bible, 1 Chronicles 7:32; 1 Chronicles 7:34; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.