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And these areוְאֵלֶּהthe namesשְׁמוֹתof the sonsבְּנֵיof Gershonגֵרְשׁוֹןby their families:לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָםLibniלִבְנִיand Shimei.וְשִׁמְעִי
Numbers 3:18
Study it in the app“And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 3:18, word by word
- the namesשְׁמוֹתshemot
name
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shemot” appears- of the sonsבְּנֵיbene
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “bene” appears- of Gershonגֵרְשׁוֹןgershon
Gershon
Gershon, the eldest son of Levi; one of the three Levite families descends from him.
Where else “gershon” appears- by their familiesמִשְׁפְּחֹתָmishpchota
family
A group of relatives within a tribe.
Where else “mishpchota” appears- Libniלִבְנִיlivni
Libni
Libni, son of Gershon, grandson of Levi; also a Levite of the family of Merari (1 Chronicles 6:29).
Where else “livni” appears- and Shimeiשִׁמְעִיshimi
Shimei
Shimei, the name of many men; among them a son of Gershon, grandson of Levi (Exodus 6:17), and the Benjaminite of Saul's family who cursed David as he fled from Absalom (2 Samuel 16:5-13; 19:16-23). It means "heard".
Where else “shimi” appears
The context
17And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
18 · This verse (above)
19And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.