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Young's Literal Translation

1 Chronicles 4:7

And sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ethnan;   Jezoar;   Zereth;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zohar;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Helah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ethnan;   Jezoar;   Zereth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ashhur;   Ethnan;   Helah;   Izhar;   Jezoar;   Zereth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Ethnan;   Helah;   Izhar;   Tekoa;   Zereth;   Zohar;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ethnan ;   Jezoar ;   Zereth ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eth'nan;   Jez'o-Ar;   Ze'reth;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ethnan;   Helah;   Izhar;   Zereth;   Zohar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Miriam;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Helah’s sons: Zereth, Zohar, and Ethnan.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Hel'ah were Tzeret, Tzochar, and Etnan.
King James Version
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
English Standard Version
The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
New Century Version
Helah's sons were Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan,
New English Translation
The sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan,
Amplified Bible
The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
World English Bible
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the sonnes of Heleah were Zereth, Iezohar and Ethnan.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Zohar, and Ethnan,
Contemporary English Version
Ashhur and Helah were the parents of Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Hel'ah were Tzeret, Tzochar and Etnan.
Darby Translation
And the sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.
Easy-to-Read Version
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan, and Koz.
George Lamsa Translation
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth and Jezoar and Ethnan.
Good News Translation
Ashhur and Helah had three sons: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Helah: Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The childre of Hellea were: Zereth, Iezohar and Ethnan.
American Standard Version
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Bible in Basic English
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the sonnes of Helah, were: Zereth, Iezoar, and Ethuan.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.
King James Version (1611)
And the sonnes of Helah were: Zereth, and Zoar, and Ethnan.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Thoada; Sereth, and Saar, and Esthanam.
English Revised Version
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the sones of Haala weren Sereth, Isaar, and Ethan.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Helah [were], Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
New King James Version
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Zohar, and Ethnan;
New Living Translation
Helah gave birth to Zereth, Izhar, Ethnan,
New Life Bible
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the sons of Helah, were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Halaa, Sereth, Isaar, and Ethnan.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.

Contextual Overview

1 Sons of Judah: Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. 2 And Reaiah son of Shobal begat Jahath, and Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad; these [are] families of the Zorathite. 3 And these [are] of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister [is] Hazzelelponi, 4 and Penuel [is] father of Gedor, and Ezer father of Hushah. These [are] sons of Hur, first-born of Ephratah, father of Beth-Lehem. 5 And to Ashhur father of Tekoa were two wives, Helah and Naarah; 6 and Naarah beareth to him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari: these [are] sons of Naarah. 7 And sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan. 8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum. 9 And Jabez is honoured above his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, `Because I have brought forth with grief.' 10 And Jabez calleth to the God of Israel, saying, `If blessing Thou dost bless me, then Thou hast made great my border, and Thy hand hath been with me, and Thou hast kept [me] from evil -- not to grieve me;' and God bringeth in that which he asked.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband [is] thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
Genesis 4:6
And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:8
And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, [`Let us go into the field;'] and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.
Genesis 4:9
And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where [is] Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper -- I?'
Genesis 4:10
And He saith, `What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;
Genesis 4:11
and now, cursed [art] thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;
Genesis 4:12
when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'
Genesis 4:13
And Cain saith unto Jehovah, `Greater is my punishment than to be borne;
Genesis 19:21
And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city [for] which thou hast spoken;
Numbers 32:23
`And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the sons of Helah,....] The other wife:

were Zereth, and Zoar, and Ethnan: nowhere else mentioned.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 4:7. And Ethnan. — After this word we should, with the Targum, read Coz, whose posterity is mentioned in the next verse. Coz was probably the same as Kenaz.


 
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