1 Chronicles 18:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְנָיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע עַל־הַכְּרֵתִ֖י וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑י וּבְנֵי־דָוִ֥יד הָרִאשֹׁנִ֖ים לְיַ֥ד הַמֶּֽלֶךְ

Transliteration

And-Bənāyāhû ben-Yəhôyādāʿ over-ha-Kərētî and-ha-Pəlētî and-bənê-dāwid hā-riʾšōnîm at-yad ha-melek

Grammar Details

*û-Bənāyāhû*: conjunction + proper noun - and Benaiah
*ben*: noun masculine singular construct - son of
*Yəhôyādāʿ*: proper noun - Jehoiada
*ʿal-ha-Kərētî*: preposition + definite article + proper noun - over the Cherethites
*wə-ha-Pəlētî*: conjunction + definite article + proper noun - and the Pelethites
*û-bənê*: conjunction + noun masculine plural construct - and sons of
*dāwid*: proper noun - David
*hā-riʾšōnîm*: definite article + adjective masculine plural - the chief/foremost
*lə-yad*: preposition + noun feminine singular construct - at hand of
*ha-melek*: definite article + noun masculine singular - the king

Word Meanings

*ʿal-ha-Kərētî wə-ha-Pəlētî*: over the Cherethites and Pelethites (royal bodyguards)
*hā-riʾšōnîm*: the chief/foremost/principal
*lə-yad ha-melek*: at the king's hand/close to the king/chief ministers

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 8:18 : 18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers.
2 Sam 15:18 : 18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men that came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
2 Sam 20:7 : 7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Sam 20:23 : 23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
2 Sam 23:19-23 : 19 Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three. 20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two [sons] [of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. 21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. 22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men. 23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.
1 Kgs 1:38 : 38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1 Kgs 1:44 : 44 and the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule;
1 Kgs 2:34-35 : 34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. 35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
1 Chr 23:28 : 28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Jehovah, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;
Zeph 2:5 : 5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

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