1 Chronicles 1:35
in 1 Chronicles 1The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.
KJV
The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThe sons of Esau,.... The firstborn of Isaac; his posterity are named in this and the two following verses, as in Gen 36:1 only it should be observed, that Timna, 1Ch 1:36 is not the name of a man, but was the concubine of Eliphaz, the eldest son of Esau, and the mother of Amalek, Gen 36:12, and so in the Arabic version it is read,"and Timna, which was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, bare him Amalek;''and so the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint.
This site's exposition
The sons of Esau
on 1 Chronicles 1:35-42
Esau's line and Seir's run together as Edom, the brother nation whose whole later history with Israel, from the wilderness refusal to Obadiah's oracle, stands behind a quiet list of names. The same sorting rule holds: Esau before Israel, the passed-over line completed and closed so that chapter 2 can open with the sons of Israel and never look back.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Some slight differences there are between some of the names here, and as we had them in Gen. xxxvi. , whence this whole account is taken. Three of four names that were written with a Vau there are written with a Jod here, probably the pronunciation being altered, as is usual in other languages.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֖י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עֵשָׂ֑ו | ʾesav | Esau | H6215 → | |
| אֱלִיפַ֛ז | ʾelifaz | Eliphaz | H464 → | |
| רְעוּאֵ֥ל | reuel | Reuel | H7467 → | 11 times |
| וִיע֖וּשׁ | viush | and Jeush | H3266 → | 9 times |
| וְיַעְלָ֥ם | veya'lam | and Jalam | H3281 → | |
| וְקֹֽרַח׃ ס | vekorach | and Korah | H7141 → | 26 times |
בְּנֵ֖י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
עֵשָׂ֑וEsau
ʾesavH6215 →
אֱלִיפַ֛זEliphaz
ʾelifazH464 →
רְעוּאֵ֥לReuel
reuelH7467 →11 times
וִיע֖וּשׁand Jeush
viushH3266 →9 times
וְיַעְלָ֥םand Jalam
veya'lamH3281 →
וְקֹֽרַח׃ סand Korah
vekorachH7141 →26 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.