1 Chronicles 8:14 — Word Study
WLCוְאַחְי֥וֹ שָׁשָׁ֖ק וִירֵמֽוֹת׃
BSAAhioʼAchyôw [a man of the tribe of Benjamin] ShashakShâshaq [an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin] JeremothYᵉrîymôwth [meaning 'He is Most High']
| Greek | English | Parsing |
|---|---|---|
| וְאַחְי֥וֹ | and Ahio | Conjunction, noun proper masculine |
| שָׁשָׁ֖ק | Shashak | Noun proper masculine |
| וִירֵמֽוֹת׃ | and Jeremoth | Conjunction, noun proper masculine |
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| BSB | Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, |
| KJV | And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, |
| ASV | and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, |
| YLT | and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, |
| WEB | and Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, |
| BBE | And their brothers Shashak and Jeremoth. |
The translations agree on the names listed in this verse — see How Translations Differ.
The verse consists of a simple list of names, highlighting the individuals from the tribe of Benjamin.
5 commentators on this verse
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Deep Study — 1 Chronicles 8:14
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Context — Genealogy of the Tribe of Benjamingenerated
1 Chronicles 8:14 is part of a genealogical account detailing the descendants of Benjamin. It lists the names of individuals who played a role in the history of Israel, emphasizing their familial connections and heritage.
Cross References
The Key Word — יְרֵמֹות, vi.re.Motgenerated
The name יְרֵמֹות (*Yriymowth*) is derived from a root meaning 'elevations' and refers to various individuals, primarily from the tribe of Benjamin. It signifies 'He is Most High' and is associated with multiple figures in the biblical narrative, including Levites and descendants of King David.
This name appears in genealogical contexts, indicating its importance in tracing lineage and heritage among the Israelites.
How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated
The verse is rendered in the Berean Standard Bible, and the translations agree on the names listed: Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth.
Sentence Structuregenerated
The structure of this verse is straightforward, consisting of a noun phrase followed by a predicate. The main focus is on the names listed, which are introduced by the conjunction.
The Hebrew word order emphasizes the names of the individuals, placing them prominently in the genealogical record.
Septuagint Backgroundgenerated
The Septuagint translates the names similarly, maintaining the connection to the individuals listed in the Hebrew text. The Greek word for יְרֵמֹות is ιαριμωθ, which aligns with the Hebrew meaning.
This consistency in translation shows the significance of these names across both the Hebrew and Greek texts.
In plain words — the whole versegenerated
1 Chronicles 8:14 lists three men from the tribe of Benjamin: Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth. These names are part of a genealogical record, showing the lineage and heritage of the tribe.
Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated
They are individuals from the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned in the genealogical records of 1 Chronicles.
Jeremoth means 'He is Most High' and is associated with several figures in the Old Testament.
Genealogies establish lineage and heritage, showing the connections between individuals and their tribes.
This verse contributes to the genealogical history of the tribes of Israel, particularly Benjamin, highlighting their descendants.
Reflection Questionsgenerated
- What can we learn from the genealogies about the importance of family and heritage in our own lives?
- How do the names listed in this verse connect to the broader narrative of the tribe of Benjamin?
- What significance do you think genealogies hold in understanding the history of Israel?
- In what ways can we honor our own family histories and legacies today?
Commentators on this verse — 5 expositors, verse by verse
Each of these wrote on 1 Chronicles 8:14 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.
John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd Ahio, Shashak, and Jerimoth. These were also sons of Elpaal.
Read John Gill on 1 Chronicles 8 →Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's CommentaryAnd Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, No JFB commentary on these verses.
Read Robert Jamieson on 1 Chronicles 8 →John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments1 Chronicles 8:14 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, Ver. 14. Here we have a list of the chieftains of the Benjamites who dwelt at Jerusalem after the captivity.
Read John Trapp on 1 Chronicles 8 →Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14-16) Apparently nine sons of Beriah. But (1) in 1 Chronicles 8:14, the LXX. reads ὁἀδελφὸςαὐτοῦ instead of Ahio. With different vowels the Hebrew term would mean this. (2) All the other names in this list are connected by the conjunctive particle. It is therefore likely that this was once the case with Shashak. (3) 1 Chronicles 8:14-27 give five groups of Benjamite clans—viz., the sons of Beriah, the sons of Elpaal, the sons of Shimhi, the sons of Shashak, and the sons of Jeroham, all dwelling in Jerusalem. Apparently, their eponymous heads are named in 1 Chronicles 8:13-14—viz., Beriah (Elpaal? omitted by accident), Shema (the same as Shimhi; there is no h in the Heb.), Shashak, and…
Read Charles John Ellicott on 1 Chronicles 8 →CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges14. And Ahio] LXX., and his brother. This verse is probably corrupt. If however we read And Elpaal his brother for And Ahio (cp. 1 Chronicles 8:18), and Jeroham for Jeremoth (cp. 1 Chronicles 8:27), we then find in 1 Chronicles 8:13 a and 1 Chronicles 8:14 five names corresponding (with one transposition) with the five names of heads of families given below, viz., Beriah (1 Chronicles 8:16), Elpaal (1 Chronicles 8:18), Shimei (1 Chronicles 8:21, R.V., = Shema), Shashak (1 Chronicles 8:25), and Jeroham (1 Chronicles 8:27).
Read Cambridge on 1 Chronicles 8 →The verse in English, compared — 17 translations, and where they part company
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Modern formal
Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
and Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
Tyndale line
And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth;
And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
And Ahio, Shashak and Ierimoth,
Strictly literal
And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
And Achyo, Shashak, and Jeremoth.
Beriah had these sons: Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
From the Latin
And Ahio, and Sesac, and Jerimoth,
Simplified
Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth,
And their brothers Shashak and Jeremoth.
Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.
The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the MACULA Hebrew treebank
This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.
Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.
The four witnesses to this verse — Masoretic, Septuagint, Samaritan, Qumran
The Masoretic Text and the Septuagint agree on the names listed in this verse: וְאַחְי֥וֹ שָׁשָׁ֖ק וִירֵמֽוֹת׃. There are no variations among the witnesses regarding these names.
וְאַחְי֥וֹ שָׁשָׁ֖ק וִירֵמֽוֹת׃
3 of the 3 words are matched. This is the word-by-word correspondence, not the Septuagint's own sentence — its word order and its articles are its own.
Four traditions, not one. “On the leather” means the letters physically survive on the scroll, as against letters an editor has supplied to fill a hole in it — a restoration is a scholar’s reading, not a reading of the manuscript. Words in [square brackets] are supplied; the notes count them apart from what survives.
The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with
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Lexicons — every word in 1 Chronicles 8:14
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Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. On the Hebrew: Brown-Driver-Briggs entire and its gloss set, Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, and Tyndale House's Translators Brief lexicon. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.
The Hebrew word אַחְיוֹ (*Achyow*) means 'brotherly' or 'fraternal' and refers to several individuals named Ahio in the Old Testament. It is derived from a root meaning 'brother' and is associated with three different men from the tribes of Benjamin and Levi, notably the son of Abinadab who cared for the ark. The entries consistently highlight these familial connections.
אַחְיוֹ n.pr.m. (fraternal)
a son of Aminadab, brother of Uzzah
a Benjamite
a Benjamite
base
H283 אַחְיוֹ
283 'Achyow akh-yo'
prolonged from 251; brotherly; Achio, the name of three
Israelites:--Ahio.
see HEBREW for 0251
אַחְיוֹ (ach.yo) — Ahio.
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.6.3;
son of: Abinadab (H0041);
brother of: Eleazar (H0499H) and Uzzah (H5798A)
§ Ahio = "brotherly" or "fraternal"
1) son of Abinadab who sheltered the ark
2) a Benjamite
3) another Benjamite of Saul's ancestry
אַחְיוֹ (ach.yo) — Ahio.
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.14;
son of: Beriah (H1283I);
brother of: Arad (H6166B), Shashak (H8349), Jeremoth (H3406I), Zebadiah (H2069), Eder (H5738), Michael (H4317L), Ishpah (H3472) and Joha (H3109)
§ Ahio = "brotherly" or "fraternal"
1) son of Abinadab who sheltered the ark
2) a Benjamite
3) another Benjamite of Saul's ancestry
אַחְיוֹ (ach.yo) — Ahio.
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ch.8.31;
Conj | N-proper — Conjunction · noun proper masculineHC/Npm
a-hi'-o ('achyo, variously explained as "his brother," "brotherly," "brother of Yahweh," "my brother is Yah"): Proper names containing a similar form of the name of Yahweh are found on the ostraca recently exhumed at Samaria. The word is always treated as a common noun in the ordinary Greek copies, being rendered either "brother" or "brothers," or "his brother" or "his brothers"; but this is probably to be taken as an instance of the relative inferiority of the Greek text as compared with the Massoretic Text. See OSTRACA.
(1) One of the sons of Beriah, the son of Elpaal, the son of Shaharaim and Hushim, reckoned among the families of Benjamin (1Ch 8:14). Beriah and Shema are described as `ancestral heads' "of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath."
Ahio
Brotherly. (1.) One of the sons of Beriah (1 Chr. 8:14).
(2.) One of the sons of Jehiel the Gibeonite (1 Chr. 8:31; 9:37).
(3.) One of the sons of Abinadab the Levite. While Uzzah went by the side of the ark, he walked before it guiding the oxen which drew the cart on which it was carried, after having brought it from his father’s house in Gibeah (1 Chr. 13:7; 2 Sam. 6:3, 4).
(brotherly). Son of Abinadab, who accompanied the ark when it was brought out of his father’s house. (2 Samuel 6:3,4; 1 Chronicles 13:7) (B.C.1043.) A Benjamite, one of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:14) A Benjamite, Son of Jehiel. (1 Chronicles 8:31; 9:37)
A son of Abinadab, who went before the ark of God on its way to Jerusalem from his father’s house; thus escaping the fate of Uzzah his brother, 2Sa 6:3-7.
שָׁשָׁק (Shashaq) refers to a man from the tribe of Benjamin, specifically the son of Beriah and the father of several descendants. The name is associated with the meaning "longing." The entries primarily focus on this individual, with no significant variation in interpretation among the lexicons.
שָׁשָׁק n.pr.m. in Benjamin
base
H8349 שָׁשָׁק, שָׁשַׁק
8349 Shashaq shaw-shak'
probably from the base of 7785; pedestrian; Shashak, an
Israelite:--Shashak.
see HEBREW for 07785
שָׁשָׁק (sha.shaq) — Shashak.
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at 1Ch.8.14;
son of: Beriah (H1283I);
brother of: Arad (H6166B), Ahio (H0283H), Jeremoth (H3406I), Zebadiah (H2069), Eder (H5738), Michael (H4317L), Ishpah (H3472) and Joha (H3109);
father of: Ishpan (H3473), Eber (H5677J), Eliel (H0447I), Abdon (H5658I), Zichri (H2147I), Hanan (H2605), Hananiah (H2608O), Elam (H5867), Anthothijah (H6070), Iphdeiah (H3301), Penuel (H6439I)
§ Shashak = "longing"
a Benjamite, son of Beriah and father of Iphedeiah and Penuel
N-proper — Noun proper masculineHNpm
sha'-shak (shashak): Eponym of a Benjamite family (1Ch 8:14,25).
(longing), a Benjamite, one of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:14,25) (B.C. after 1450.)
a bag of linen; the sixth bag
→ A Benjamite 1Ch 8:14,25
The Hebrew word יְרֵימוֹת (*Yriymowth*) is a feminine plural form derived from the root meaning 'elevations.' It refers to various individuals, primarily from the tribe of Benjamin, including several men named Jerimoth or Jeremoth, as well as Levites and a son of King David. The name is associated with the meaning 'He is Most High' and appears in genealogical contexts.
יְרֵימוֹת, יְרֵמוֹת, יְרִימוֹת n.pr.m.
Benjamites
Levites
Naphtalite
son of David and father of Rehoboam’s wife
men who had strange wives
base
H3406 יְרֵימוֹת, יְרֵמוֹת, יְרִימוֹת
3406 Yriymowth yer-ee-mohth'
or Yreymowth {yer-ay-mohth'}; or Yremowth {yer-ay-mohth'};
feminine plural from 7311; elevations; Jerimoth or Jeremoth,
the name of twelve Israelites:--Jermoth, Jerimoth, and Ramoth
(from the margin).
see HEBREW for 07311
יְרִימוֹת (ye.ri.mot) — Jerimoth.
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.7;
son of: Bela (H1106A);
brother of: Ard (H0714H), Naaman (H5283H), Ezbon (H0675H), Uzzi (H5813I), Uzziel (H5816I), Iri (H5901), Addar (H0146H), Gera (H1617I), Abihud (H0031), Abishua (H0050H) and Ahoah (H0265)
§ Jerimoth or Jeremoth = "He is Most High"
1) a Benjamite, son of Bela and head of a house of Benjamite
2) a Benjamite, son of Becher and head of a house of Benjamite
3) a Benjamite, son of Beriah and grandson of Elpaal
4) a Merarite Levite, son of Mushi
5) one of the men that joined David in the wilderness
6) a Levite, son of Heman and head of the 15th course of musicians
7) a Levite in the reign of Hezekiah
8) a son of Azriel, ruler of the tribe of Naphtali in the reign of David
9) a son of king David and the father of the wife of Rehoboam
Conj | N-proper — Conjunction · noun proper masculineHC/Npm
jer'-e-moth
(a) yeremoth and
(b) yeremowth,
(c) yerimowth, meaning unknown:
Of the following (1) has form (b), (5) the form (c), the rest (a).
(1) In 1Ch 7:8 (the King James Version "Jerimoth"), and
(2) In 1Ch 8:14, Benjamites. Compare JEROHAM, (2).
(3) In 1Ch 23:23, and (4) in 1Ch 25:22 = "Jerimoth," 24:30; heads of Levitical houses.
(heights). A Benjamite chief, a son of the house of Beriah of Elpaal. (1 Chronicles 8:14) comp. 1Chr 8:12-18 (B.C. about 588.) A merarite levite, son of Mushi. (1 Chronicles 23:23) Son of Heman; head of the thirteenth course of musicians in the divine service. (1 Chronicles 25:22) (B.C. 1014.) One of the sons of Elam, and, One of the sons of Zattu, who had taken strange wives. (Ezra 10:26,27) (B.C. 459.) The name which appears in the same list as "and RAMOTH," ver. 29.
eminences; one that fears death