And the sonsוּבְנֵיof Samuel:שְׁמוּאֵלthe firstborn,הַבְּכֹרJoel,and the second,וַשְׁנִיAbijah.וַאֲבִיָּה
1 Chronicles 6:28
Study it in the app“And the sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Chronicles 6:28, word by word
- And the sonsבְנֵיvene
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “vene” appears- of Samuelשְׁמוּאֵלshemuel
Samuel
Samuel, the name of two persons. One was a chief of the tribe of Simeon (Numbers 34:20). The best known is the son of Elkanah and Hannah, prophet and last judge of Israel, who anointed the kings Saul and David. The name sounds like "heard by El" or "name of El."
Where else “shemuel” appears- the firstbornבְּכֹרbechor
firstborn
The son who came into the world before his brothers, with a special place in the family.
Where else “bechor” appears- and the secondוַשְׁנִיvashni
and the second
"And the second": this is how this Hebrew word is understood here, because of 1 Samuel 8:2, where Samuel's firstborn is Joel and the second is Abijah. Strong's lexicon lists it as a proper name, "Vashni."
Where else “vashni” appears- Abijahאֲבִיָּהaviya
Abijah
Abijah: the name of several people; among them Samuel's second son (1 Samuel 8:2), a son of Jeroboam (1 Kings 14:1) and a king of Judah (2 Chronicles 13:1). It means "my father is YHWH."
Where else “aviya” appears
Translation note
The Hebrew says only “the firstborn and the second and Abijah”; the name of the firstborn, Joel, is missing, which verse 33 and 1 Samuel 8:2 give. Strong’s lexicon lists the same letters as a name, Vashni: “the firstborn, Vashni, and Abijah.”
The context
27Eliab, his son; Jeroham, his son; Elkanah, his son.
28 · This verse (above)
29The sons of Merari: Mahli; Libni, his son; Shimei, his son; Uzzah, his son;