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1 Chronicles 2

1 Chron. 2:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andm he took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
Geshur
Gshuwr (Hebrew #1650)
bridge; Geshur, a district of Syria
KJV usage: Geshur, Geshurite.
Pronounce: ghesh-oor'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to join)
, and Aram
'Aram (Hebrew #758)
the highland; Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants; also the name of the son of Shem, a grandson of Nahor, and of an Israelite
KJV usage: Aram, Mesopotamia, Syria, Syrians.
Pronounce: arawm'
Origin: from the same as 759
, with the towns
chavvah (Hebrew #2333)
by implication, an encampment or village
KJV usage: (small) town.
Pronounce: khav-vaw'
Origin: properly, the same as 2332 (life-giving, i.e. living-place)
of Jair
Ya'iyr (Hebrew #2971)
enlightener; Jair, the name of four Israelites
KJV usage: Jair.
Pronounce: yaw-ere'
Origin: from 215
, from them, with Kenath
Qnath (Hebrew #7079)
possession; Kenath, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Kenath.
Pronounce: ken-awth'
Origin: from 7069
, and the towns
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
thereof, even threescore
shishshiym (Hebrew #8346)
sixty
KJV usage: sixty, three score.
Pronounce: shish-sheem'
Origin: multiple of 8337
cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
. All these belonged to the sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Machir
Makiyr (Hebrew #4353)
salesman; Makir, an Israelite
KJV usage: Machir.
Pronounce: maw-keer'
Origin: from 4376
the father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
of Gilead
Gil`ad (Hebrew #1568)
Gilad, a region East of the Jordan; also the name of three Israelites
KJV usage: Gilead, Gileadite.
Pronounce: ghil-awd'
Origin: probably from 1567
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Num. 32:41• 41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their hamlets, and called them Havoth-Jair. (Num. 32:41)
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Deut. 3:14• 14Jair the son of Manasseh took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and called Bashan after his own name, Havoth-Jair, to this day.) (Deut. 3:14)
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Josh. 13:30• 30their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities. (Josh. 13:30)

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Aram,
Father,
Geshur,
Gilead,
Jair,
Kenath,
Machir

Cross References

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Geshur.
Josh. 13:13• 13But the children of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites nor the Maachathites; but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites to this day. (Josh. 13:13)
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2 Sam. 13:38• 38Now Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. (2 Sam. 13:38)
Kenath.Kenath was situated in the tribe of Manasseh, east of Jordan. Eusebius says it was called in his time [Kanatha,] Kanatha; and was a town in the Trachonitis, near Bozra.
Josephus places it in Coelo-syria; and Pliny reckons it among the cities of the Decapolis.
It was also called Nobah, after Nobah an Israelite, who conquered it, (Nu 32:42;) which is placed by Eusebius, eight miles south of Heshbon:
See Note on Jdg 8:11.

J. N. Darby Translation

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and Geshur and Aramf took the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its dependent towns, sixty cities. All these were sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

JND Translation Notes

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Probably "the Geshurites and the Syrians." It may be read "and he took Geshur and Aram, with the villages," etc.