1 Chronicles 8:22 — Word Study
WLCוְיִשְׁפָּ֥ן וָעֵ֖בֶר וֶאֱלִיאֵֽל׃
BSAIshpanYishpân△ [son of Shashak, a Benjamite] EberʻÊbêr [a great-grandson of Shem] ElielʼĔlîyʼêl [my God is God, a common Israelite name]
| Greek | English | Parsing |
|---|---|---|
| וְיִשְׁפָּ֥ן | and Ishpan | Conjunction, noun proper masculine |
| וָעֵ֖בֶר | and Eber | Conjunction, noun proper masculine |
| וֶאֱלִיאֵֽל׃ | and Eliel | Conjunction, noun proper masculine |
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| BSB | Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, |
| KJV | And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel, |
| ASV | and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel, |
| YLT | And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel, |
| WEB | Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, |
| BBE | And Ishpan and Eber and Eliel |
All translations agree on the names listed in this verse.
The verse consists of a single main clause listing names without additional structure.
3 commentators on this verse
Gill, Jamieson, Ellicott & more — read them ›
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1 of 3 occurs nowhere else in the Old Testament — a word chosen on purpose.
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Deep Study — 1 Chronicles 8:22
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Context — Genealogies of the Tribe of Benjamingenerated
1 Chronicles 8:22 lists Ishpan, Eber, and Eliel as descendants of Benjamin, highlighting the importance of lineage in Israel's history. This verse is part of a broader genealogical record that traces the family lines of the tribes of Israel, emphasizing their heritage and connection to the patriarchs.
Cross References
The Key Word — יִשְׁפָּן, ve.yish.Pangenerated
The name יִשְׁפָּן (Yishpan) is derived from a root meaning 'he will hide'. It refers to a man from the tribe of Benjamin, specifically the son of Shashak. The parsing indicates that it is a proper masculine noun, showing its role as a personal name in this genealogical context.
Ishpan's mention here connects him to the broader narrative of Israel's history, where names often carry significance regarding family and identity. The name's meaning may suggest a character trait or a role within the community.
How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated
This study reads the verse in the Berean Standard Bible, so the BSB is the wording every comparison below is made against.
Sentence Structuregenerated
The structure of the verse is straightforward, consisting of a simple list of names. The finite verb is absent, as the focus is on the enumeration of individuals: יִשְׁפָּן, עֵבֶר, אֱלִיאֵל.
The names are presented in a noun phrase format, indicating their equal importance within the genealogical record.
Septuagint Backgroundgenerated
The Septuagint translates יִשְׁפָּן as ισφαν, עֵבֶר as ωβηδ, and אֱלִיאֵל as ελεηλ. This choice reflects a direct correspondence to the Hebrew names, maintaining their identity in the Greek translation.
The consistency in naming across both texts indicates a shared understanding of these individuals' significance in the genealogical context.
In plain words — the whole versegenerated
1 Chronicles 8:22 lists Ishpan, Eber, and Eliel as names from the tribe of Benjamin. Each name carries meaning and significance, reflecting the heritage of the Israelites and their connection to their ancestors.
Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated
The names represent individuals from the tribe of Benjamin, highlighting their lineage and connection to Israel's history.
Genealogies establish heritage, identity, and the fulfillment of God's promises to His people.
Ishpan means 'he hides' and is associated with the tribe of Benjamin.
Eber was a great-grandson of Shem and a significant figure in the genealogies of the Israelites.
Reflection Questionsgenerated
- What can we learn about our own heritage and identity from the genealogies in the Bible?
- How do names in the Bible reflect the character or role of individuals?
- Why do you think the chronicler emphasized the lineage of the tribe of Benjamin?
- In what ways can understanding genealogies deepen our appreciation for the biblical narrative?
Commentators on this verse — 3 expositors, verse by verse
Each of these wrote on 1 Chronicles 8:22 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.
John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleVer. 22-25. And Ishpan, and Heber,.... And all that follow to the end of these verses, Eliel, Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, Hananiah, Elam, Antothijah, Iphedeiah, and Penuel, were the sons of Shashak,
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 →Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22-25) Eleven sons of Shashak (1 Chronicles 8:14), followed by six sons of Jeroham (Jeremoth, 1 Chronicles 8:14) in 1 Chronicles 8:26-27. The recurrence of the same names in the five groups is noticeable. Thus, a Zichri appears among the sons of Shimei (1 Chronicles 8:19), among the sons of Shashak (1 Chronicles 8:23), and among the sons of Jeroham (1 Chronicles 8:27). Of course the name may have been thus frequent among the Benjamite clans dwelling in Jerusalem. But it is possible to see in the fact an indication that, at the time when the present register was framed, some of these houses were no longer able to trace their pedigrees with certainty to one famous name rather than another.
Read Charles John Ellicott on 1 Chronicles 8 →The verse in English, compared — 17 translations, and where they part company
Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.
Modern formal
Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
Tyndale line
And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,
and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel;
And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
And Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,
Strictly literal
And Jishpah, and Eber, and Eliel,
And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
and Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
And Yishpan, and 'Eber, and Eliel,
Shashak had these sons: Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, Abdon, Zikri, Hanan, Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah, Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
From the Latin
And Jespham, and Heber, and Eliel,
Simplified
Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,
And Ishpan and Eber and Eliel
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, with no significant variations between them.
וְיִשְׁפָּ֥ן וָעֵ֖בֶר וֶאֱלִיאֵֽל׃
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 8:22
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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.
יִשְׁפָּן (Yishpan) is a proper name referring to a man from the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 8:22. The name is likely derived from a root meaning 'he will hide.' He is noted as a descendant of Shashak and has several brothers listed in the genealogical context.
יִשְׁפָּן n.pr.m. in Benjamin 1 Ch 8:22
ref
H3473 יִשְׁפָּן
3473 Yishpan yish-pawn'
probably from the same as 8227; he will hide; Jishpan, an
Israelite:--Ishpan.
see HEBREW for 08227
יִשְׁפָּן (yish.pan) — Ishpan.
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.22;
son of: Shashak (H8349);
brother of: Eber (H5677J), Eliel (H0447I), Abdon (H5658I), Zichri (H2147I), Hanan (H2605), Hananiah (H2608O), Elam (H5867), Anthothijah (H6070), Iphdeiah (H3301) and Penuel (H6439I)
§ Ishpan = "he hides"
a Benjamite of the family of Shashak
Conj | N-proper — Conjunction · noun proper masculineHC/Npm
ish'-pan (yishpan, literally, "he will hide"): Descendant of Benjamin, son of Shashak, one of "the chief men, heads of fathers' houses"; lived at Jerusalem (1Ch 8:22).
(bald), a Benjamite, one of the family of Shashak. (1 Chronicles 8:22) (B.C. before 588.)
→ A chief Benjamite 1Ch 8:22
The Hebrew word עֵ֫בֶר (*Eber*) refers to a name associated with several individuals in the Old Testament, including a patriarch, a Gadite chief, and various Benjamites. It is derived from a root meaning 'the region beyond.' Notably, Eber is the son of Shelah and the father of Peleg and Joktan, appearing in genealogies and historical contexts.
עֵ֫בֶר n.pr.m. Eber (perh. eponym of Hebrews)
‘son’ of Shelaḥ, and ‘grandson’ of Arpachshad
a Gadite chief
Benjamite names
a priest
base
H5677 עֵ֫בֶר Eber (perh. eponym of Hebrews) . ‘son’ of Shelaḥ, and ‘grandson’ of Arpachshad
. a Gadite chief
. Benjamite names
. a priest
5677 `Eber ay'-ber
the same as 5676; Eber, the name of two patriarchs and four
Israelites:--Eber, Heber.
see HEBREW for 05676
עֵ֫בֶר (e.ver) — Eber.
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.21;
son of: Shelah (H7974);
father of: Peleg (H6389) and Joktan (H3355)
Also named: Eber (Ἐβέρ "Eber" G1443)
§ Eber or Heber = "the region beyond"
1) son of Salah, great grandson of Shem, father of Peleg and Joktan
2) a Gadite chief
3) a Benjamite, son of Elpaal and descendant of Sharahaim
4) a Benjamite, son of Shashak
5) a priest in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua
עֵ֫בֶר (e.ver) — Eber.
A man of the tribe of Gad living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.5.13;
son of: Abihail (H0032I);
brother of: Michael (H4317H), Meshullam (H4918I), Sheba (H7652), Jorai (H3140), Jacan (H3275) and Zia (H2127)
§ Eber or Heber = "the region beyond"
1) son of Salah, great grandson of Shem, father of Peleg and Joktan
2) a Gadite chief
Conj | N-proper — Conjunction · noun proper masculineHC/Npm
e'-ber (`ebher; Eber, in Gen; Obed, in Ch):
(1) Occurs in the genealogies (Ge 10:21,25; 11:14 ff) as the great-grandson of Shem and father of Peleg and Joktan. The word means "the other side," "across," and the form "Hebrew," which is derived from it, is intended to denote the people or tribe who came "from the other, side of the river" (i.e. the Euphrates), from Haran (Ge 11:31), whence Abraham and his dependents migrated to Canaan.
Eber
Beyond. (1.). The third post-duluvian patriach after Shem (Gen. 10:24; 11:14). He is regarded as the founder of the Hebrew race (10:21; Num. 24:24). In Luke 3:35 he is called Heber.
(2.) One of the seven heads of the families of the Gadites (1 Chr. 5:13).
(3.) The oldest of the three sons of Elpaal the Benjamite (8:12).
(4.) One of the heads of the familes of Benjamites in Jerusalem (22).
(5.) The head of the priestly family of Amok in the time of Zerubbabel (Neh. 12:20).
(the region beyond). Son of Salah, and great-grandson of Shem. (Genesis 10:24; 1 Chronicles 1:19) (B.C. 2277-1813.) [For confusion between Eber and Heber see HEBER] Son of Elpaal and descendant of Sharahaim of the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 8:12) (B.C. 1400). A priest in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua. (Nehemiah 12:20) (B.C. 445.)
See HEBER.
The Hebrew word אֱלִיאֵל (Eliy'el) means 'my God is God' or 'El is God.' It refers to several individuals, primarily during the Divided Monarchy, including chiefs in David's army and members of the tribes of Manasseh and Benjamin. The name appears in 1 Chronicles, where it is associated with various roles, such as a Levite and a chief Kohathite.
אֱלִיאֵל n.pr.m. (Ēl is God, or my God is God) only Ch.
two or three of David’s chiefs
chief of Manasseh
two chiefs of Benjamin
chief of the Hebronites
a chief Kohathite
a Levite
base
H447 אֱלִיאֵל
447 'Eliy'el el-ee-ale'
from 410 repeated; God of (his) God; Eliel, the name of nine
Israelites:--Eliel.
see HEBREW for 0410
אֱלִיאֵל (e.li.el) — Eliel.
A man of the tribe of Manasseh living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.5.24
§ Eliel = "my God is God" or "El is God"
1) an ancestor of Samuel
2) chief in David's army (might be two or three different men)
3) a Levite with David in moving the ark
4) a chief of Manasseh
5) two chiefs of Benjamin
6) a chief Kohathite
7) a Levite
אֱלִיאֵל (e.li.el) — Eliel.
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.20;
son of: Shimei (H8096N);
brother of: Jakim (H3356), Zichri (H2147H), Zabdi (H2067H), Elienai (H0462), Zillethai (H6769), Adaiah (H5718H), Beraiah (H1256) and Shimrath (H8119)
§ Eliel = "my God is God" or "El is God"
1) an ancestor of Samuel
2) chief in David's army (might be two or three different men)
3) a Levite with David in moving the ark
4) a chief of Manasseh
Conj | N-proper — Conjunction · noun proper masculineHC/Npm
Eliel
To whom God is might. (1.) A chief of Manasseh, on the east of Jordan (1 Chr. 5:24).
(2.) A Gadite who joined David in the hold at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:11).
(3.) One of the overseers of the offerings in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chr. 31:13).
(to whom God is strength). One of the heads of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan. (1 Chronicles 5:24) A forefather of Samuel the prophet. (1 Chronicles 6:34) A chief man in the tribe of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 8:20) Also a Benjamite chief. (1 Chronicles 8:22) One of the heroes of David’s guard. (1 Chronicles 11:46) Another of the same guard. (1 Chronicles 11:47) One of the Gadite heroes who came across Jordan to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah hiding from Saul. (1 Chronicles 12:11) A…
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