1 Chronicles 9:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעֹבַדְיָה֙ בֶּֽן־שְׁמַֽעְיָ֔ה בֶּן־גָּלָ֖ל בֶּן־יְדוּת֑וּן וּבֶרֶכְיָ֤ה בֶן־אָסָא֙ בֶּן־אֶלְקָנָ֔ה הַיּוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּחַצְרֵ֥י נְטוֹפָתִֽי׃

Transliteration

wĕ-ʿŌbadyāh son-of-Šĕmaʿyāh son-of-Gālāl son-of-Yĕdûtûn û-Berekyāh son-of-ʾĀsāʾ son-of-ʾElqānāh ha-yôšēb in-ḥaṣrê Nĕṭôpātî

Grammar Details

• *wĕ*-*ʿŌbadyāh*: conjunction + proper noun - and Obadiah
• son-of-*Šĕmaʿyāh*: construct relationship + proper noun - son of Shemaiah
• son-of-*Gālāl*: construct relationship + proper noun - son of Galal
• son-of-*Yĕdûtûn*: construct relationship + proper noun - son of Jeduthun
• *û*-*Berekyāh*: conjunction + proper noun - and Berechiah
• son-of-*ʾĀsāʾ*: construct relationship + proper noun - son of Asa
• son-of-*ʾElqānāh*: construct relationship + proper noun - son of Elkanah
• *ha*-*yôšēb*: definite article + Qal participle, masculine singular - the one dwelling
• in-*ḥaṣrê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - in villages of
• *Nĕṭôpātî*: gentilic adjective - Netophathites

Word Meanings

• *Yĕdûtûn*: Jeduthun (a chief musician in David's time)
• *ha*-*yôšēb*: the one dwelling/residing/living
• *ḥaṣrê* *Nĕṭôpātî*: villages of the Netophathites/settlement of Netophah

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 2:54 : 54 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
• 1 Chr 12:25 : 25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
• 1 Chr 25:1 : 1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
• 1 Chr 25:3 : 3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
• 1 Chr 25:6 : 6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
• 2 Chr 35:15 : 15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
• Neh 7:26 : 26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
• Neh 11:17 : 17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
• Neh 12:28-30 : 28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi; 29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem. 30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.