The Meaning of 1 Chronicles 5:7 Explained

1 Chronicles 5:7

KJV: And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

YLT: And his brethren, by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, are heads: Jeiel, and Zechariah,

Darby: And his brethren by their families, in the genealogical register of their generations, were: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

ASV: And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And his brethren  by their families,  when the genealogy  of their generations  was reckoned,  [were] the chief,  Jeiel,  and Zechariah, 

What does 1 Chronicles 5:7 Mean?

Chapter Summary: 1 Chronicles 5

1  Judah and Joseph preferred before Reuben, who forfeited his birthright
3  Ruben's descendants; some of whom vanquish the Hagarites
11  The chief men of Gad, and their habitations
18  Ruben, Gad, and half of Manasseh, obtain a victory over the Hagarites
23  The habitations and chief men of that half of Manasseh
25  The captivity of the two tribes and half, for their sins

What do the individual words in 1 Chronicles 5:7 mean?

And his brothers by their families when the genealogy of their generations the chief Jeiel and Zechariah
וְאֶחָיו֙ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔יו בְּהִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ לְתֹלְדוֹתָ֑ם הָרֹ֥אשׁ יְעִיאֵ֖ל וּזְכַרְיָֽהוּ

וְאֶחָיו֙  And  his  brothers 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: אָח  
Sense: brother.
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔יו  by  their  families 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, feminine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: מִשְׁפָּחָה  
Sense: clan, family.
בְּהִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ  when  the  genealogy 
Parse: Preposition-b, Verb, Hitpael, Infinitive construct
Root: יָחַשׂ  
Sense: (Hithpael) to reckon genealogically, enrol on a genealogy, enrol, be enrolled.
לְתֹלְדוֹתָ֑ם  of  their  generations 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, feminine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: תֹּולֵדֹות  
Sense: descendants, results, proceedings, generations, genealogies.
הָרֹ֥אשׁ  the  chief 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: רֹאשׁ 
Sense: head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning.
יְעִיאֵ֖ל  Jeiel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יְעִיאֵל  
Sense: one of the sons of Adonikam who returned from exile with Ezra.
וּזְכַרְיָֽהוּ  and  Zechariah 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: זְכַרְיָה 
Sense: th in order of the minor prophets; a priest, son of Berechiah and grandson of Iddo, who, along with Haggai, directed the rebuilding of the temple in the days of Zerubbabel.

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