VASHNI . Samuel’s firstborn son, according to MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] of 1 Chronicles 6:13 (Eng. 28), which is followed by AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . RV [Note: Revised Version.] , following the Syr. (see mg.), and on the strength of 1 Chronicles 6:18 (33) and the || 1 Samuel 8:2 , supplies Joel as the name of Samuel’s oldest son, and substitutes ‘and the second Abiah’ for ‘Vashni and Abiah.’

Samuel's older son (1 Chronicles 6:28). JOEL in 1 Chronicles 6:33 and 1 Samuel 8:2. "Joel" may have dropped out from 1 Chronicles 6:28, and wesheeni will mean "and the second."

(Vawssh' ni) Personal name perhaps meaning, “weak.” Samuel's son according to Hebrew text of 2 Chronicles 6:28 (KJV), which reads literally, “And sons of Samuel the firstborn Vashni and Abiah.” Modern translations and commentators follow 1 Samuel 8:2 and manuscripts of early versions, taking Vashni as a copyist's change from the similar Hebrew word for “the second” and inserting Joel.

See JOEL No. 1.

The second; changed; a tooth