Genesis 46:9
in Genesis 46The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
KJV
And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
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This verse in Genesis 46
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
In the speech of Stephen (Ac 7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh (1Ch 7:14-20), born in Egypt, the two accounts coincide.
This site's exposition
these are the names of the sons of Israel
on Genesis 46:8-11
The roll opens with Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, who loses the birthright in chapter 49 for what he did with his father's bed. Simeon and Levi stand next, the two who took Shechem by the sword, and Shaul is marked the son of a Canaanite woman. Few mothers are named in the roll.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the sons of Reuben, Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. From whom came the families named after them, of which they were the heads, Num 26:5.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
This proves that Jacob’s sons married Aramean, Egyptian, Edomite and Midianite women.
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. 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֖י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| רְאוּבֵ֑ן | reuven | Reuben | H7205 → | 72 times |
| חֲנ֥וֹךְ | chanokh | Hanoch | H2585 → | 16 times |
| וּפַלּ֖וּא | ufalu' | and Pallu | H6396 → | |
| וְחֶצְר֥וֹן | vechetzron | and Hezron | H2696 → | |
| וְכַרְמִֽי׃ | vekharmi | and Carmi | H3756 → |
וּבְנֵ֖יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
רְאוּבֵ֑ןReuben
reuvenH7205 →72 times
חֲנ֥וֹךְHanoch
chanokhH2585 →16 times
וּפַלּ֖וּאand Pallu
ufalu'H6396 →
וְחֶצְר֥וֹןand Hezron
vechetzronH2696 →
וְכַרְמִֽי׃and Carmi
vekharmiH3756 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Genesis
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).