1 Chronicles 8:18
in 1 Chronicles 8Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
KJV
Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 8
Commentary
1 note on this verseThis site's exposition
who drove away the inhabitants of Gath
on 1 Chronicles 8:13-27
Beriah and Shema, heads of Aijalon, carry the list's one act of war: they drove the inhabitants out of Gath, which Gill reads as payment for what Gath's neighbors had done to Ephraim at 7:21. The roll then runs the sons of Elpaal, Shimhi and Shashak through many verses of names with no further narrative, though Gill passes on a late tradition, traced to Kimchi, identifying one Eliah among them with Elijah the prophet, of the seed of Rachel. Fourteen verses carry the tribe's spread across Aijalon and its towns on the strength of one remembered clash and little else.
The words behind it
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְיִשְׁמְרַ֧י | veyishmerai | and Ishmerai | H3461 → | |
| וְיִזְלִיאָ֛ה | veyizliah | and Izliah | H3152 → | |
| וְיוֹבָ֖ב | veyovav | and Jobab | H3103 → | 9 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [were] [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אֶלְפָּֽעַל׃ | ʾelpaal | Elpaal | H508 → | 3 times |
וְיִשְׁמְרַ֧יand Ishmerai
veyishmeraiH3461 →
וְיִזְלִיאָ֛הand Izliah
veyizliahH3152 →
וְיוֹבָ֖בand Jobab
veyovavH3103 →9 times
בְּנֵ֥י[were] [the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.