Numbers 26:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּהְי֣וּ בְנֵי־יְהוּדָה֮ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם֒ לְשֵׁלָ֗ה מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַשֵּׁ֣לָנִ֔י לְפֶ֕רֶץ מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַפַּרְצִ֑י לְזֶ֕רַח מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַזַּרְחִֽי׃

Transliteration

And wayyihyû sons of-Yəhûdāh to mišpəḥōtām to Šēlāh mišpaḥat the Šēlānî to Pereṣ mišpaḥat the Parṣî to Zeraḥ mišpaḥat the Zarḥî

Grammar Details

• *wayyihyû*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - and they were
• *Yəhûdāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *mišpəḥōtām*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their families
• *Šēlāh*: proper noun - Shelah
• *mišpaḥat*: noun, feminine singular construct - family/clan of
• *Šēlānî*: gentilic adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the Shelanite
• *Pereṣ*: proper noun - Perez
• *Parṣî*: gentilic adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the Perezite
• *Zeraḥ*: proper noun - Zerah
• *Zarḥî*: gentilic adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the Zerahite

Word Meanings

• *mišpəḥōtām*: their families/clans/relatives
• *mišpaḥat*: family/clan/relatives

Referenced Verses

• Gen 46:12 : 12 And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
• Neh 11:24 : 24 And Pethahiah, the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah, the son of Judah, was the king's servant in everything to do with the people.
• Matt 1:3 : 3 And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;
• Luke 3:33 : 33 The son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,
• Ruth 4:18-22 : 18 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron; 19 And Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab; 20 And Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon; 21 And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed; 22 And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
• 1 Chr 2:3-8 : 3 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death. 4 And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five. 5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. 6 And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them. 7 And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing. 8 And the son of Ethan: Azariah.
• 1 Chr 4:21 : 21 The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;
• Neh 11:4 : 4 And in Jerusalem there were living certain of the children of Judah and of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah, the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
• Neh 11:6 : 6 All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position.
• Gen 38:5 : 5 Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.
• Gen 38:11 : 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.
• Gen 38:14 : 14 She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife.
• Gen 38:26-30 : 26 Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her. 27 And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body. 28 And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first. 29 But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez. 30 And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.