Genesis 46:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבְנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֗ן בֶּ֤לַע וָבֶ֙כֶר֙ וְאַשְׁבֵּ֔ל גֵּרָ֥א וְנַעֲמָ֖ן אֵחִ֣י וָרֹ֑אשׁ מֻפִּ֥ים וְחֻפִּ֖ים וָאָֽרְדְּ׃

Transliteration

And-sons-of Binyāmîn: Belaʿ and-Beḵer and-ʾAšbēl, Gērāʾ and-Naʿămān, ʾĒḥî and-Rōʾš, Muppîm and-Ḥuppîm and-ʾĀrd.

Grammar Details

• *Binyāmîn*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Benjamin'
• *Belaʿ*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Bela'
• *Beḵer*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Becher'
• *ʾAšbēl*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Ashbel'
• *Gērāʾ*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Gera'
• *Naʿămān*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Naaman'
• *ʾĒḥî*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Ehi'
• *Rōʾš*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Rosh'
• *Muppîm*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Muppim'
• *Ḥuppîm*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Huppim'
• *ʾĀrd*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Ard'

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 7:6-9 : 6 [ The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. 7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty and two thousand and thirty and four. 8 And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. 9 And they were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand and two hundred. 10 And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war. 12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.
• 1 Chr 8:1-7 : 1 And Benjamin begat Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, 2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 3 And Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, 4 and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, 5 and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram. 6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath: 7 and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he begat Uzza and Ahihud.
• Gen 49:27 : 27 Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth: In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil.
• Num 1:11 : 11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
• Num 1:36-37 : 36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 37 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
• Num 26:38-40 : 38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; 39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. 40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard], the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
• Deut 33:12 : 12 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell in safety by him; He covereth him all the day long, And he dwelleth between his shoulders.