Genesis 46 · Verse 17

Genesis 46:17

And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
Genesis 46:17, King James Version

Genesis 46:17 in other translations

BSBThe children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
WEBThe sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
ASVAnd the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
YLTAnd sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
DARBY— And the sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Jishvah, and Jishvi, and Beriah; and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
BBEAnd the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
WebsterAnd the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

What does Genesis 46:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 46:8-27

8-27. all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten--Strictly speaking, there were only sixty-six went to Egypt; but to these add Joseph and his two sons, and Jacob the head of the clan, and the whole number amounts to seventy. In the speech of Stephen (Ac 7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh (1Ch…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 46:5-27

We have here a particular account of Jacob's family. Though the fulfilling of promises is always sure, yet it is often slow. It was now 215 years since God had promised Abraham to make of him a great nation, ch. 12:2; yet that branch of his seed, to which the promise was made sure, had only increased to seventy, of whom this particular account is kept, to show the power of God in making these seventy become a vast…

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Genesis 46:17 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.

וּבְנֵ֣יu.ve.Neiand [the] sons ofH1121
אָשֵׁ֗ר'a.SherAsherH836
יִמְנָ֧הyim.NahImnahH3232
וְיִשְׁוָ֛הve.yish.Vahand IshvahH3438
וְיִשְׁוִ֥יve.yish.Viand IshviH3440
וּבְרִיעָ֖הu.ve.ri.'Ahand BeriahH1283
וְשֶׂ֣רַחve.Se.rachand SerahH8294
אֲחֹתָ֑ם'a.cho.Tamsister theirH269
וּבְנֵ֣יu.ve.Neiand [the] sons ofH1121
בְרִיעָ֔הve.ri.'AhBeriahH1283
חֶ֖בֶרChe.verHeberH2268
וּמַלְכִּיאֵֽל\׃u.mal.ki.'Eland MalkielH4439

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Cross references for Genesis 46:17

  • Genesis 30:13

    And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

  • Genesis 49:20

    Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:2

    Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

  • Genesis 35:26

    And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan–aram.

  • Numbers 1:40-41

    Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

  • Deuteronomy 33:24

    And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:30-40

    The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith. And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet. …

  • Numbers 26:44-46

    Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.

  • Numbers 1:13

    Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.

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Asher.
30:13; 35:26; 49:20; Nu 1:13,40,41; 26:44-46; De 33:24; 1Ch 2:2
1Ch 7:30-40

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Context

  • Genesis 46:16

    And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

  • Genesis 46:17

    And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

  • Genesis 46:18

    These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.

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Genesis 46:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y los hijos de Aser: Jimna, é Ishua, é Isui, y Beria, y Sera, hermana de ellos. Los hijos de Beria: Heber, y Malchîel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		– Et les fils d’Aser: Jimna, et Jishva, et Jishvi, et Beriha, et Sérakh, leur sœur. Et les fils de Beriha: Héber et Malkiel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und die Söhne Asers: Jimna und Jischwa und Jischwi und Beria, und Serach, ihre Schwester. Und die Söhne Berias: Heber und Malkiel.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Filii Aser: Jamne et Jesua et Jessui et Beria, Sara quoque soror eorum. Filii Beria: Heber et Melchiel.