1 Chronicles 8:2
in 1 Chronicles 8Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
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ASV
Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
KJV
Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 8
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Bela his firstborn
on 1 Chronicles 8:1-7
Benjamin's genealogy resumes here after the roll in chapter 7, and the return signals what the chapter is building toward: a full record of the tribe that produced Saul. Bela's line runs to grandsons already settled at Geba and then moved to Manahath, the ordinary drift of families across generations. Barnes reads the return to Benjamin as the compiler bridging the genealogical section into the historical narrative that opens with Saul at the chapter's end.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. Nohah is supposed by some to be the same with Becher, 1Ch 7:6 and by others with Naaman, Gen 46:21, as Rapha, the same with Rosh there.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And Benjamin begot Bela his firstborn He already traced his genealogy (above:6-11), but since he wished to trace his genealogy until Saul, he commences to trace it from Benjamin.
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נוֹחָה֙ | nochah | Nohah | H5119 → | |
| הָֽרְבִיעִ֔י | harevii | the fourth | H7243 → | 56 times |
| וְרָפָ֖א | verafa' | and Rapha | H7498 → | |
| הַחֲמִישִֽׁי׃ ס | hachamishi | the fifth | H2549 → | 45 times |
נוֹחָה֙Nohah
nochahH5119 →
הָֽרְבִיעִ֔יthe fourth
hareviiH7243 →56 times
וְרָפָ֖אand Rapha
verafa'H7498 →
הַחֲמִישִֽׁי׃ סthe fifth
hachamishiH2549 →45 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).