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1 Chronicles 5:24

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These were the heads of their families: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And these were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.

KJV

And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

they increased from Bashan

on 1 Chronicles 5:23-24

Half the tribe of Manasseh held the ground from Bashan north to Mount Hermon under its several names, Baal-hermon and Senir, and the chapter names seven heads of households as mighty men of valor and famous men. Gill reads the growth from Bashan as expansion within the territory Moses already assigned the half tribe, not a fresh conquest. The list stays short because the tribe's own story in this book is short, two verses of standing before the transgression that closes the chapter.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

In a glorious victory over the Hagarites, so the Ishmaelites were now called, to remind them that they were the sons of the bond-woman, that was cast out. We are not told when this victory was obtained: whether it be the same with that of the Reubenites (which is said

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The words behind it

19 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.

  • וְאֵ֖לֶּהand these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • רָאשֵׁ֣י[were] [the] chiefs of

    rasheiH7218 →599 times

  • בֵית־[the] house of

    veit-H1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבוֹתָ֑םancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • וְעֵ֡פֶרand Epher

    veeferH6081 →4 times

  • וְיִשְׁעִ֡יand Ishi

    veyishiH3469 →5 times

  • וֶאֱלִיאֵ֡לand Eliel

    veelielH447 →10 times

  • וְ֠עַזְרִיאֵלand Azriel

    veazrielH5837 →

  • וְיִרְמְיָ֨הand Jeremiah

    veyirmeyahH3414 →147 times

  • וְהוֹדַוְיָ֜הand Hodaviah

    vehodavyahH1938 →4 times

  • וְיַחְדִּיאֵ֗לand Jahdiel

    veyachdielH3164 →

  • אֲנָשִׁים֙men

    ʾanashimH582 →566 times

  • גִּבּ֣וֹרֵיmighty of

    giboreiH1368 →158 times

  • חַ֔יִלstrength

    chayilH2428 →246 times

  • אַנְשֵׁ֣יmen of

    ʾansheiH582 →566 times

  • שֵׁמ֔וֹתnames

    shemotH8034 →864 times

  • רָאשִׁ֖יםchiefs

    rashimH7218 →599 times

  • לְבֵ֥יתof [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

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

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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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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