1 Chronicles 8:11
in 1 Chronicles 8He also had sons by Hushim: Abitub and Elpaal.
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ASV
And of Hushim he begat Abitub and Elpaal.
KJV
And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 8
Commentary
1 note on this verseThis site's exposition
in the country of Moab
on 1 Chronicles 8:8-12
A rare narrative fragment breaks the name list: Shaharaim, having sent away his first household, fathers children in Moab by two more wives, and a line through his son Elpaal reaches two towns, Ono and Lod. Both towns reappear centuries later in the rosters of Benjamites who returned from exile, at Ezra 2:33 and Nehemiah 11:35, so a family founded here by a man who left the land for Moab is remembered again in the list of those who came back to it. Gill and Clarke both treat the record as genuine family history rather than scribal confusion, differing only on whether Hodesh names the same wife elsewhere called Baara or a separate woman.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And from Hushim he begot This is Hushim his wife, mentioned above, and because there was an interruption with Hodesh his wife.
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. 5 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמֵחֻשִׁ֛ים | umechushim | and from Hushim | H2366 → | 4 times |
| הוֹלִ֥יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲבִיט֖וּב | ʾavituv | Abitub | H36 → | |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֶלְפָּֽעַל׃ | ʾelpaal | Elpaal | H508 → | 3 times |
וּמֵחֻשִׁ֛יםand from Hushim
umechushimH2366 →4 times
הוֹלִ֥ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
אֲבִיט֖וּבAbitub
ʾavituvH36 →
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אֶלְפָּֽעַל׃Elpaal
ʾelpaalH508 →3 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.