yachas · enroll in a genealogy

What it means

yachas (יָחַשׂ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “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.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To enter someone in their family list.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• genealogical record ×10
• enrolled in the genealogy ×6
• those registered in the genealogy ×2
• be registered by genealogy ×1
• were registered by genealogy ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×10
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Ezra×3
• Nehemiah×2

• 1 Chronicles 4:33

  and all their villages that were around these cities as far as Baal. These were their dwelling places, and they had their genealogical record.

• 1 Chronicles 5:1

  And the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but when he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he is not enrolled in the genealogy as firstborn;

• 1 Chronicles 5:7

  And his brothers, by their families, in the genealogical record according to their generations: the head, Jeiel; and Zechariah,

• 1 Chronicles 5:17

  All of them were enrolled in the genealogy in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 7:5

  And their brothers, of all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor: eighty-seven thousand was their genealogical record of all.

• 1 Chronicles 7:7

  And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and their genealogical record: twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

• 1 Chronicles 7:9

  And their genealogical record, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor: twenty thousand two hundred.

• 1 Chronicles 7:40

  All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, chosen, mighty men of valor, heads of the chiefs; and their genealogical record in the army, for the war: their number, twenty-six thousand men.

• 1 Chronicles 9:1

  And all Israel was enrolled in the genealogy; and there they are, written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was carried into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.

• 1 Chronicles 9:22

  All of them who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled in the genealogy in their villages; David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.

• 2 Chronicles 12:15

  The deeds of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to the genealogical record? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days.

• 2 Chronicles 31:16

  apart from their genealogical record of males from three years old and upward, to everyone who entered the house of YHWH, according to the matter of each day, for their service in their watches according to their divisions.

• 2 Chronicles 31:17

  And the genealogical record of the priests was by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, by their watches, in their divisions;

• 2 Chronicles 31:18

  and they were enrolled in the genealogy with all their little ones, their wives, their sons and their daughters, for the whole assembly; for in their faithfulness they sanctified themselves in holiness.

• 2 Chronicles 31:19

  And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of the pasturelands of their cities, in every city there were men who had been designated by name to give portions to every male among the priests and to everyone enrolled in the genealogy among the Levites.

• Ezra 2:62

  These sought their record, that of those registered in the genealogy, but they were not found, and they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood.

• Ezra 8:1

  And these are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and the genealogical record of those who went up with me in the reign of Artaxerxes the king from Babylon:

• Ezra 8:3

  of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered by genealogy one hundred fifty males;

• Nehemiah 7:5

  Then my Elohim put it into my heart, and I gathered the nobles, the officials, and the people to be registered by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

• Nehemiah 7:64

  These sought their record, that of those registered in the genealogy, but it was not found, and they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood.