1 Chronicles 1:38
in 1 Chronicles 1The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
KJV
And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 1
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis 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 Awakening3 voices
Seir - One of another nation, prince of the Horims; whose genealogy is here described, because of that affinity which was contracted between his and Esau's posterity; and those who were not united and incorporated with them, were destroyed by them.
And the sons of Seir,.... This man and his posterity were not of the race of Esau, but are mentioned because they were a family into which Esau, and a son of his, married, and whose possessions he and his obtained. The account from hence, to the end of 1Ch 1:42 is the same with Gen 36:20, with some little variation of names.
Adam was the common father of our flesh, Abraham the common father of the faithful. By the breach which the former made of the covenant of innocency, we were all made miserable; by the covenant of grace made with the latter, we all are, or may be, made happy. We all are, by nature, the seed of Adam, branches of that wild olive.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֣י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| שֵׂעִ֔יר | seir | Seir | H8165 → | |
| לוֹטָ֥ן | lotan | Lotan | H3877 → | 7 times |
| וְשׁוֹבָ֖ל | veshoval | and Shobal | H7732 → | 9 times |
| וְצִבְע֣וֹן | vetzivon | and Zibeon | H6649 → | |
| וַֽעֲנָ֑ה | vaanah | and Anah | H6034 → | 12 times |
| וְדִישֹׁ֥ן | vedishon | and Dishon | H1787 → | 7 times |
| וְאֵ֖צֶר | veetzer | and Ezer | H687 → | |
| וְדִישָֽׁן׃ | vedishan | and Dishan | H1789 → |
וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
שֵׂעִ֔ירSeir
seirH8165 →
לוֹטָ֥ןLotan
lotanH3877 →7 times
וְשׁוֹבָ֖לand Shobal
veshovalH7732 →9 times
וְצִבְע֣וֹןand Zibeon
vetzivonH6649 →
וַֽעֲנָ֑הand Anah
vaanahH6034 →12 times
וְדִישֹׁ֥ןand Dishon
vedishonH1787 →7 times
וְאֵ֖צֶרand Ezer
veetzerH687 →
וְדִישָֽׁן׃and Dishan
vedishanH1789 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.