1 Chronicles 7:23

And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
in	וַיָּבֹא֙ vai.ya.Vo'	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
wife	אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ 'ish.To	H802	a woman · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
conceived	וַתַּ֖הַר va.Ta.har	H2029	to be (or become) pregnant · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
bare	וַתֵּ֣לֶד va.Te.led	H3205	to bear young · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
son	בֵּ֑ן Ben	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
called	וַיִּקְרָ֤א vai.yik.Ra'	H7121	to call out to (i.e. properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
name	שְׁמוֹ֙ she.Mo	H8034	an appellation · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Beriah	בְּרִיעָ֔ה be.ri.'Ah	H1283	Beriah · proper noun, a man's name
evil	בְרָעָ֖ה ve.ra.'Ah	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
house	בְּבֵיתֽוֹ be.vei.To	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

2 Samuel 23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 7:20–end

We have here an account, I. Of the tribe of Ephraim. Great things we read of that tribe when it came to maturity. Here we have an account of the disasters of its infancy, while it was in Egypt as it should seem; for Ephraim himself was alive when those things were done, which yet is hard to imagine if it were, as is here computed, seven generations off. Therefore I am apt to think that either it was another Ephraim or that those who were slain were the immediate sons of that Ephraim that was the son of Joseph. In this passage, which is related here only, we have, 1. The great breach that was made upon the family of Ephraim. The men of Gath, Philistines, giants, slew many of the sons of that…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 7:21

whom the men of Gath . . . slew, &c.--This interesting little episode gives us a glimpse of the state of Hebrew society in Egypt; for the occurrence narrated seems to have taken place before the Israelites left that country. The patriarch Ephraim was then alive, though he must have arrived at a very advanced age; and the Hebrew people, at all events those of them who were his descendants, still retained their pastoral character. It was in perfect consistency with the ideas and habits of Oriental shepherds that they should have made a raid on the neighboring tribe of the Philistines for the purpose of plundering their flocks. For nothing is more common among them than hostile incursions on th…

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Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 7:21

Whom the men of Gath - slew - We know nothing of this circumstance but what is related here. The Targum paraphrases the whole thus: "These were the leaders of the house of Ephraim; and they computed their period [or boundary, כיצא kitsa] from the time in which the Word of the Lord of the universe spake with Abraham between the divisions, [i.e., the separated parts of the covenant sacrifice; see Gen 15:9-21], but they erred, for they should have counted from the time in which Isaac was born; they went out of Egypt therefore thirty years before the period: for, thirty years before the birth of Isaac the Word of the Lord of the universe spake with Abraham between the divisions. And when they we…

Dictionary and topics

Beriah — A gift, or in evil. (1.) One of Asher’s four sons, and father of Heber (Gen. 46:17). (2.) A son of Ephraim (1 Chr. 7:20-23), born after the slaughter of his brothers, and so called by his father…
Shuthelah — (noise of breaking), head of an Ephraimite family, called after him Shuthalhites, (Numbers 26:35) and lineal ancestor of Joshua the son of Numb (1 Chronicles 7:20-27)
Beriah · 2. — 2.
Ephraim · . — .

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 7:23

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 7:20–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 7:21

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 7:21

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1 Chronicles 7:23

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 7:20–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 7:21

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 7:21

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 7:23

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 7:23

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:22

Rashi on 1 Chronicles 7:21