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1 Chronicles 8

1 Chron. 8:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Now Benjamin
Binyamiyn (Hebrew #1144)
son of (the) right hand; Binjamin, youngest son of Jacob; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Benjamin.
Pronounce: bin-yaw-mene'
Origin: from 1121 and 3225
begat
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
Bela
Bela` (Hebrew #1106)
Bela, the name of a place, also of an Edomite and of two Israelites
KJV usage: Bela.
Pronounce: beh'-lah
Origin: the same as 1105
his firstborn
bkowr (Hebrew #1060)
firstborn; hence, chief
KJV usage: eldest (son), firstborn(-ling).
Pronounce: bek-ore'
Origin: from 1069
, Ashbel
'Ashbel (Hebrew #788)
flowing; Ashbel, an Israelite
KJV usage: Ashbel.
Pronounce: ash-bale'
Origin: probably from the same as 7640
the second
sheniy (Hebrew #8145)
properly, double, i.e. second; also adverbially, again
KJV usage: again, either (of them), (an-)other, second (time).
Pronounce: shay-nee'
Origin: from 8138
, and Aharah
'Achrach (Hebrew #315)
after (his) brother: Achrach, an Israelite
KJV usage: Aharah.
Pronounce: akh-rakh'
Origin: from 310 and 251
the third
shliyshiy (Hebrew #7992)
third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
KJV usage: third (part, rank, time), three (years old).
Pronounce: shel-ee-shee'
Origin: ordinal from 7969
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Aharah,
Ashbel,
Ashbel; Ashbelites,
Bela; Belah,
Benjamin

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-32:  The sons and chief men of Benjamin.
33-40:  The stock of Saul and Jonathan.
Bela.
1 Chron. 7:6‑12• 6The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
 7And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valour; and they were registered by their genealogy twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.
 8And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were the sons of Becher.
 9And they were registered by their genealogy by their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valour, twenty thousand two hundred.
 10And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
 11All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, seventeen thousand two hundred, fit for service for war.
 12And Shuppim, and Huppim, the children of Ir.--Hushim: the sons of Aher. (1 Chron. 7:6‑12)
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Gen. 46:21• 21--And the sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. (Gen. 46:21)
Aharah.
Num. 26:38• 38The sons of Benjamin, after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; (Num. 26:38)
Ahiram.
• Here for the second time we find the genealogy of Benjamin (cf. 1 Chron. 7:6-12), but with a very special purpose. It brings us to Saul and his family (1 Chron. 8:33)....which is to be replaced, according to Chronicles' unchanging pattern, by the kingship of David according to election of God and the counsels of grace. (“The Tribe of Benjamin in Relation to the Family of Saul: 1 Chronicles 8” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Benjamin begot Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,