1 Chronicles 6:28

And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
sons	וּבְנֵ֧י u.ve.Nei	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct
Samuel	שְׁמוּאֵ֛ל she.mu.'El	H8050	Shemuel · proper noun, a man's name
firstborn	הַבְּכֹ֥ר ha.be.Khor	H1060	firstborn · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
Vashni	וַשְׁנִ֖י vash.Ni	H2059	Vashni · ordinal number, masculine singular absolute
Abiah	וַאֲבִיָּֽה va.'a.vi.Yah	H29	Abijah · conjunction + proper noun, a man's name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Samuel 8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
1 Chronicles 6:33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:1-30

The priests and Levites were more concerned than any other Israelites to preserve their pedigree clear and to be able to prove it, because all the honours and privileges of their office depended upon their descent. And we read of those who, though perhaps they really were children of the priests, yet, because they could not find the register of their genealogies, nor make out their descent by any authentic record, were, as polluted, put from the priesthood, and forbidden to eat of the holy things, Ezr 2:62, Ezr 2:63. It is but very little that is here recorded of the genealogies of this sacred tribe. I. The first fathers of it are here named twice, Ch1 6:1, Ch1 6:16. Gershom, Kohath, and Mer…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 6:28

the sons of Samuel--The sons of Samuel are here named Vashni and Abiah. The first-born is called Joel (Sa1 8:2); and this name is given to him in Ch1 6:33. It is now generally thought by the best critics that, through an error of the copyists, an omission has been made of the oldest son's name, and that Vashni, which is not the name of a person, merely signifies "and the second." This critical emendation of the text makes all clear, as well as consistent with other passages relating to the family of Samuel.

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 6:28

The first-born Vashni, and Abiah - There is a great mistake in this verse: in Sa1 8:2 we read, Now the name of his (Samuel's) first-born was Joel; and the name of his second Abiah. The word יואל Joel is lost out of the text in this place, and ושני vesheni, which signifies the second, and which refers to Abiah, is made here into a proper name. The Septuagint, Vulgate, and Chaldee, copy this blunder; but the Syriac and Arabic read as in Sa1 8:2. The MSS. have all copied the corrupted Hebrew in this place. Jarchi labors to restore the true reading, and yet preserve the integrity of the text, by paraphrasing thus: "And the second, (ושני vesheni), in respect of the first, he was Abiah; and the se…

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Dictionary and topics

Abijah — Father (i.e., “possessor or worshipper”) of Jehovah. (1.) 1 Chr. 7:8. (2.) 1 Chr. 2:24. (3.) The second son of Samuel (1 Sam. 8:2; 1 Chr. 6:28). His conduct, along with that of his brother, as a…
Elkanah, Or Elkonah — (God-provided).
Prophet — (Heb. nabi, from a root meaning “to bubble forth, as from a fountain,” hence “to utter”, comp. Ps. 45:1). This Hebrew word is the first and the most generally used for a prophet. In the time of…
Tabor — A height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly extensive…
Vashni — (strong), the first-born of Samuel as the text now stands. (1 Chronicles 6:28) (13); but in (1 Samuel 8:2) the name of his first-born is Joel. Most probably in the Chronicles the name of Joel has…
Abia · 2. — 2.
Joel · . — .
Levites, The · Originally consisted for three families or divisions — Originally consisted for three families or divisions

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Chronicles 6:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:1-30

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 6:28

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 6:28

Dictionary and topics

1 Chronicles 6:28

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:1-30

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 6:28

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 6:28

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 6:21

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 6:21-28

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:27

Rashi on 1 Chronicles 6:24