1 Chronicles 7:1
in 1 Chronicles 7The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
KJV
Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 7
Commentary
2 notes on this verseNow the sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. The same number is given, Gen 46:13 with a small variation of two of their names, there called Phuvah and Job, from whence so many families sprang, mentioned Num 26:23, where the names are the same as here.
This site's exposition
the sons of Issachar were
on 1 Chronicles 7:1-5
Issachar's list runs four generations deep with a troop count at each stage, closing at eighty seven thousand fighting men reckoned by genealogy. Adam Clarke notes that Issachar, Benjamin and Asher are the only three tribes whose David-era musters survive in this record, a detail Chronicles alone preserves. Gill traces the large numbers to polygamy, the tribe's many wives and sons named outright at verse four.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלִבְנֵ֣י | velivnei | and to [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשָׂשכָ֗ר | yisoshkhar | Issachar | H3485 → | 43 times |
| תּוֹלָ֧ע | tola' | Tola | H8439 → | 6 times |
| וּפוּאָ֛ה | ufuah | and Puah | H6312 → | |
| יָשׁ֥וּב | yashiv | Jashub | H3437 → | |
| וְשִׁמְר֖וֹן | veshimron | and Shimron | H8110 → | |
| אַרְבָּעָֽה׃ ס | ʾarbaah | four | H702 → | 318 times |
וְלִבְנֵ֣יand to [the] sons of
velivneiH1121 →4930 times
יִשָׂשכָ֗רIssachar
yisoshkharH3485 →43 times
תּוֹלָ֧עTola
tola'H8439 →6 times
וּפוּאָ֛הand Puah
ufuahH6312 →
יָשׁ֥וּבJashub
yashivH3437 →
וְשִׁמְר֖וֹןand Shimron
veshimronH8110 →
אַרְבָּעָֽה׃ סfour
ʾarbaahH702 →318 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
Genesis 46:13The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 12:32
From Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their kinsmen at their command.
- 1 Chronicles 7:1–5
The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.
- Genesis 30:14–18
Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
- Numbers 1:28–30
From the sons of Issachar, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
- 1 Chronicles 2:1
These were the sons of Israel:
- 1 Chronicles 12:32
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.