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1 Chronicles 4:12

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Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, of Paseah, and of Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

KJV

And Eshton begat Beth–rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir–nahash. These are the men of Rechah.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 4

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the brother of Shuah begat Mehir

on 1 Chronicles 4:11-20

This unit gathers several branches of Caleb's descendants, including the craftsmen of the valley of Charashim at verse fourteen, carpenters and smiths named for their trade rather than for any deed. Verse eighteen preserves an otherwise unrecorded marriage, Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh taken by a descendant of Caleb, an Egyptian princess grafted into Judah's genealogy without further comment. Most of the names in this stretch occur nowhere else in Scripture, which is part of what these chapters are doing, keeping every family on record even where no story survives to go with the name.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Eshton begat Bethrapha,.... Or the family of Rapha: and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash; or the city of Nahash; Tehinnah seems to have been the prince or governor of a city, so called: these are the men of Rechah; these sons of Eshton dwelt in a place called Rechah; the Targum, without any reason, says, these are the men of the great sanhedrim.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

These are the men of Rechah - “These are the men of the great Sanhedrin.” - T.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

the leader of Ir Nahash the name of a city, and Tehinnah (was) its leader.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 4:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And Celub, the brother of Shuhah He briefly enumerates families, although he did not mention him above; similarly (v. 13): “and the sons of Kenaz,” although he did not mention him above; and similarly (verse 14): “And Meonothai,” was not mentioned, for so is the manner of this Book.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on I Chronicles 4:11:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel. Even though the text had not mentioned Kenaz, it mentions his lines, as we have written (v. 11).
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on I Chronicles 4:13:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007

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

15 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.

  • וְאֶשְׁתּ֗וֹןand Eshton

    veeshtonH850 →

  • הוֹלִ֞ידhe fathered

    holidH3205 →496 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בֵּ֤יתBeth-

    beitH1051 →

  • רָפָא֙Rapha

    rafa'H1051 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • פָּסֵ֔חַPaseah

    paseachH6454 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • תְּחִנָּ֖הTehinnah

    techinahH8468 →

  • אֲבִ֣י[the] father of

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

  • עִ֣ירIr-

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • נָחָ֑שׁnahash

    nachashH5176 →10 times

  • אֵ֖לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • אַנְשֵׁ֥י[were] [the] men of

    ʾansheiH582 →566 times

  • רֵכָֽה׃ סRecah

    rekhahH7397 →

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

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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