Genesis 46 · Verse 24

Genesis 46:24

And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 46:24, King James Version

Genesis 46:24 in other translations

BSBThe sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
WEBThe sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
ASVAnd the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
YLTAnd sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
DARBY— And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
BBEAnd the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.
WebsterAnd the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

What does Genesis 46:24 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 46:24 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.

וּבְנֵ֖יu.ve.Neiand [the] sons ofH1121
נַפְתָּלִ֑יnaf.ta.LiNaphtaliH5321
יַחְצְאֵ֥לyach.tze.'ElJahzeelH3183
וְגוּנִ֖יve.gu.Niand GuniH1476
וְיֵ֥צֶרve.Ye.tzerand JezerH3337
וְשִׁלֵּֽם\׃ve.shi.Lemand ShillemH8006

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

Cross references for Genesis 46:24

  • 1 Chronicles 7:13

    The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

  • 2 Kings 15:29

    In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

  • Numbers 1:15

    Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:34

    And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.

  • Numbers 26:48-50

    Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.

  • Genesis 30:7-8

    And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

  • Deuteronomy 33:23

    And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the west and the south.

  • Genesis 49:21

    Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:2

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

  • Genesis 35:25

    And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

  • Numbers 1:42-43

    Of the children of Naphtali, throughout 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 Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Naphtali.
30:7,8; 35:25; 49:21; Nu 1:15,42,43; 26:48-50; De 33:23; 2Ki 15:29
1Ch 2:2; 12:34
Jahzeel.
1Ch 7:13
Jahziel.

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Context

  • Genesis 46:23

    And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

  • Genesis 46:24

    And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

  • Genesis 46:25

    These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

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Genesis 46:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y los hijos de Nephtalí: Jahzeel, y Guni, y Jezer, y Shillem.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
– Et les fils de Nephthali: Jahtseël, et Guni, et Jétser, et Shillem.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und die Söhne Naphtalis: Jachzeel und Guni und Jezer und Schillem.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Filii Nephthali: Jasiel et Guni et Jeser et Sallem.