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And Shuppimוְשֻׁפִּםand Huppim,וְחֻפִּםthe sonsבְּנֵיof Ir;עִירHushim,חֻשִׁםthe sonsבְּנֵיof Aher.אַחֵר
1 Chronicles 7:12
Study it in the app“And Shuppim and Huppim, the sons of Ir; Hushim, the sons of Aher.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Chronicles 7:12, word by word
- And Shuppimשֻׁפִּםshupim
Shuppim
Shuppim: the name of a man of the tribe of Benjamin and of a Levite gatekeeper.
Where else “shupim” appears- and Huppimחֻפִּםchupim
Huppim
Huppim, a son of Benjamin.
Where else “chupim” appears- the sonsבְּנֵיbene
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “bene” appears- of Irעִירir
Ir
Ir: a man of the tribe of Benjamin.
Where else “ir” appears- Hushimחֻשִׁםchushim
Hushim
Hushim, the name of a son of Dan, of a Benjaminite, and of a Benjaminite woman.
Where else “chushim” appears- of Aherאַחֵרacher
Aher
Aher: the name of a man, or the Hebrew word "another"; the text of 1 Chronicles 7:12 does not allow us to know.
Where else “acher” appears
Translation note
An obscure verse. “Aher” means “another” in Hebrew; it can be read as a name or as “sons of another.” Genesis 46:23 names Hushim as the son of Dan, a tribe that does not appear in these lists.
The context
11All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of the fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor: seventeen thousand and two hundred, who went out to the army for the war.
12 · This verse (above)
13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.