1 Chronicles 6:27
in 1 Chronicles 6Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.
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ASV
Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
KJV
Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
2 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.
This site's exposition
Gershom, Kohath, and Merari
on 1 Chronicles 6:16-30
The sons of Levi are named a second time to open the wider Levitical houses that did not descend from Aaron, and the list traces Gershom, Kohath, and Merari down toward David's own day. Kohath's branch is carried furthest, reaching Elkanah and Samuel the prophet, whose sons are recorded here under a name, Vashni, that Clarke and Jamieson Fausset and Brown both read as a copied Hebrew phrase for and the second rather than a proper name. Samuel never held the priesthood; his place in this family explains how a Levite living in Ephraim's hill country could judge Israel and anoint its first two kings.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֱלִיאָ֥ב | ʾeliav | Eliab | H446 → | 21 times |
| בְּנ֛וֹ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יְרֹחָ֥ם | yerocham | Jeroham | H3395 → | 10 times |
| בְּנ֖וֹ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֶלְקָנָ֥ה | ʾelkanah | Elkanah | H511 → | 21 times |
| בְנֽוֹ׃ | veno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| בְּנֽוֹ | beno | son his | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| וּשְׁמוּאֵל | ushemuel | and Samuel | H8050 → | 141 times |
אֱלִיאָ֥בEliab
ʾeliavH446 →21 times
בְּנ֛וֹson his
benoH1121 →4930 times
יְרֹחָ֥םJeroham
yerochamH3395 →10 times
בְּנ֖וֹson his
benoH1121 →4930 times
אֶלְקָנָ֥הElkanah
ʾelkanahH511 →21 times
בְנֽוֹ׃son his
venoH1121 →4930 times
בְּנֽוֹson his
benoH1121 →4930 times
וּשְׁמוּאֵלand Samuel
ushemuelH8050 →141 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Samuel 1:1Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of…
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:34
Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
- 1 Chronicles 6:25–27
The descendants of Elkanah:
- 1 Samuel 1:19
The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered…
- Ruth 1:2
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of…
- Judges 17:1
Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
- 1 Chronicles 6:34
About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.
