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And the sonsוּבְנֵיof Elpaal:אֶלְפַּעַלEber,עֵבֶרMisham,וּמִשְׁעָםand Shemed;וָשָׁמֶדheהוּאbuiltבָּנָהOno,אֶת אוֹנוֹand Lodוְאֶת לֹדand its towns;וּבְנֹתֶיהָ
1 Chronicles 8:12
Study it in the app“And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed; he built Ono, and Lod and its towns;”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Chronicles 8:12, 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 Elpaalאֶלְפַּעַלelpaal
Elpaal
Elpaal: a man of the tribe of Benjamin, son of Shaharaim. The name means "God has worked."
Where else “elpaal” appears- Eberעֵבֶרever
Eber
Eber, an ancestor of Abraham; the word "Hebrew" seems to come from his name. Also the name of other men.
Where else “ever” appears- Mishamמִשְׁעָםmisham
Misham
Misham: a man of the tribe of Benjamin, son of Elpaal.
Where else “misham” appears- and Shemedשָׁמֶדshamed
Shemer, Shemed
Shemer: a name that, according to the lexicon, means "what is kept" (like the lees of wine). He is the owner of the hill that Omri bought; "Samaria" comes from his name (1 Kings 16:24). Other men have the same name in Chronicles. In 1 Chronicles 8:12 the Hebrew text writes שָׁמֶד, "Shemed," another man (the lexicon lists this name with Shemer).
Where else “shamed” appears- builtבָּנָהbana
build
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “bana” appears- Onoאוֹנוֹono
Ono
Ono: a city of Benjamin, near Lod.
Where else “ono” appears- and Lodלֹדlod
Lod
Lod: a city of Benjamin, in the plain, northwest of Jerusalem (the Lydda of the New Testament).
Where else “lod” appears- and its townsבְנֹתֶיvenote
village
Literally "the daughters": small places that depend on a city.
Where else “venote” appears
The context
11And by Hushim he had fathered Abitub and Elpaal.
12 · This verse (above)
13and Beriah and Shema; they were the heads of the fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Aijalon; they put to flight the inhabitants of Gath.