1 Chronicles 1 · Verse 37

1 Chronicles 1:37

The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
1 Chronicles 1:37, King James Version

1 Chronicles 1:37 in other translations

BSBThe sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
WEBThe sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
ASVThe sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
YLTSons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
DARBYThe sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
BBEThe sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.
WebsterThe sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

What does 1 Chronicles 1:37 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
37. Reuel--a powerful branch of the great Aeneze tribe, the Rowalla Arabs. Shammah--the great tribe Beni Shammar. In the same way, the names of the other kings and dukes are traced in the modern tribes of Arabia. But it is unnecessary to mention any more of these obscure nomads, except to notice that Jobab (1Ch 1:44), one of the kings of Edom, is considered to be Job, and that his seat was in the royal city of Dinahab (Ge 36:32; 1Ch 1:43), identified with O'Daeb, a well-known town in the center of Al Dahna, a great northern desert in the direction of Chaldea and the Euphrates [Forster].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Chronicles 1:28-54

The genealogy is from hence confined to the posterity of Abraham. Let us take occasion from reading these lists of names, to think of the multitudes that have gone through this world, have done their parts in it, and then quitted it. As one generation, even of sinful men, passes away, another comes. Ec 1:4; Nu 32:14, and will do so while the earth remains. Short is our passage through time into eternity. May we be…

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1 Chronicles 1:37 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּנֵ֖יbe.Nei[the] sons ofH1121
רְעוּאֵ֑לre.'u.'ElReuelH7467
נַ֥חַתNa.chatNahathH5184
זֶ֖רַחZe.rachZerahH2226
שַׁמָּ֥הsha.MahShammahH8048
וּמִזָּֽה\׃\ \סu.mi.Zahand MizzahH4199

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • 1 Chronicles 1:36

    The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:37

    The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:38

    And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.

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1 Chronicles 1:37 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Los hijos de Rehuel: Nahath, Zera, Samma, y Mizza.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		– Les fils de Rehuel: Nakhath, Zérakh, Shamma, et Mizza.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Die Söhne Reghuels: Nachath, Serach, Schamma und Missa.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Filii Rahuel: Nahath, Zara, Samma, Meza.