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And his brothers,וְאֶחָיוby their families,לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָיוin the genealogical recordבְּהִתְיַחֵשׂaccording to their generations:לְתֹלְדוֹתָםthe head,הָרֹאשׁJeiel;יְעִיאֵלand Zechariah,וּזְכַרְיָהוּ
1 Chronicles 5:7
Study it in the app“And his brothers, by their families, in the genealogical record according to their generations: the head, Jeiel; and Zechariah,”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Chronicles 5:7, word by word
- And his brothersאֶחָיechay
brother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “echay” appears- by their familiesמִשְׁפְּחֹתָיmishpchotay
family
A group of relatives within a tribe.
Where else “mishpchotay” appears- in the genealogical recordהִתְיַחֵשׂhityaches
enroll in a genealogy
Enroll in the genealogy: record someone in the list of his family according to his ancestors. These lists showed to which tribe and family each person belonged.
Where else “hityaches” appears- according to their generationsתֹלְדוֹתָtoldota
generations
What comes from someone: his descendants and their history. "These are the generations of..." is the phrase with which Genesis opens each of its sections.
Where else “toldota” appears- the headרֹאשׁrosh
chief
Literally "the head": the one who leads, or the best of something.
Where else “rosh” appears- Jeielיְעִיאֵלyeiel
Jeiel
Jeiel: name of several Israelites, among them a head of a family of Reuben, one of David's mighty men, Levite singers and gatekeepers, and a scribe of King Uzziah.
Where else “yeiel” appears- and Zechariahזְכַרְיָהוּzecharyahu
Zechariah
Zechariah: a name meaning "YHWH has remembered," one of the most frequent in the Bible. Borne, among others, by the king of Israel son of Jeroboam (2 Kings 14:29; 15:8), the son of the priest Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:20) and the prophet of the book that bears his name.
Where else “zecharyahu” appears
The context
6Beerah, his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried into exile; he was chief of the Reubenites.
7 · This verse (above)
8and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel; he lived in Aroer, and as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.