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1 Chronicles 4 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

1Ch 4:1The sons of Yehudah: Peretz, Hetzron, and Karmi, and Hur, and Shoval.
1Ch 4:2Re'ayah the son of Shoval became the father of Yachat; and Yachat became the father of Achumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Tzor`ati.
1Ch 4:3These were the sons of the father of `Etam: Yizre`el, and Yishma, and Yidbash; and the name of their sister was Hatztzelel-Poni;
1Ch 4:4and Penu'el the father of Gedor, and Etzer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Efratah, the father of Beit-Lechem.
1Ch 4:5Ashshur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Hel'ah and Na`arah.
1Ch 4:6Na`arah bore him Achuzzam, and Hefer, and Timni, and Achashtari. These were the sons of Na`arah.
1Ch 4:7The sons of Hel'ah were Tzeret, Tzochar, and Etnan.
1Ch 4:8Kotz became the father of `Anuv, and Tzovevah, and the families of Acharchel the son of Harum.
1Ch 4:9Ya`betz was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Ya`betz, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
1Ch 4:10Ya`betz called on the God of Yisra'el, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested.
1Ch 4:11Kelub the brother of Shuchah became the father of Mechir, who was the father of Eshton.
1Ch 4:12Eshton became the father of Beit-Rafa, and Pase'ach, and Techinnah the father of Ir-Nachash. These are the men of Rekhah.
1Ch 4:13The sons of Kenaz: `Otni'el, and Serayah. The sons of `Otni'el: Hatat.
1Ch 4:14Me`onotai became the father of Ofrat: and Serayah became the father of Yo'av the father of Ge-Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
1Ch 4:15The sons of Kalev the son of Yefunneh: Iru, Elah, and Na`am; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.
1Ch 4:16The sons of Yehallel'el: Zif, and Zifah, Tiryah, and Asar'el.
1Ch 4:17The sons of Ezrah: Yeter, and Mered, and `Efer, and Yalon; and she bore Miryam, and Shammai, and Yishbach the father of Eshtemoa.
1Ch 4:18His wife Yehudiyah bore Yered the father of Gedor, and Hever the father of Sokho, and Yekuti'el the father of Zanoach. These are the sons of Bityah the daughter of Par`oh, whom Mered took.
1Ch 4:19The sons of the wife of Hodiyah, the sister of Nacham, were the father of Ke`ilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Ma`akhatite.
1Ch 4:20The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Yish`i: Zochet, and Ben-Zochet.
1Ch 4:21The sons of Shelah, the son of Yehudah: `Er the father of Lekha, and La`adah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
1Ch 4:22and Yokim, and the men of Kozeva, and Yo'ash, and Saraf, who had dominion in Mo'av, and Yashuvi-Lechem. The records are ancient.
1Ch 4:23These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.

Descendants of Simeon

1Ch 4:24The sons of Shim`on: Nemu'el, and Yamin, Yariv, Zerach, Sha'ul;
1Ch 4:25Shallum his son, Mivsam his son, Mishma his son.
1Ch 4:26The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zakkur his son, Shim`i his son.
1Ch 4:27Shim`i had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Yehudah.
1Ch 4:28They lived at Be'er-Sheva, and Moladah, and Hatzar-Shu`al,
1Ch 4:29and at Bilhah, and at `Etzem, and at Tolad,
1Ch 4:30and at Betu'el, and at Hormah, and at Tziklag,
1Ch 4:31and at Beit-Markavot, and Hatzar-Susim, and at Beit-Bir'i, and at Sha`arayim. These were their cities to the reign of David.
1Ch 4:32Their villages were `Etam, and `Ayin, Rimmon, and Tokhen, and `Ashan, five cities;
1Ch 4:33and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Ba`al. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
1Ch 4:34Meshovav, and Yamlekh, and Yoshah the son of Amatzyah,
1Ch 4:35and Yo'el, and Yehu the son of Yoshivyah, the son of Serayah, the son of `Asi'el,
1Ch 4:36and Elyo`enai, and Ya`akovah, and Yeshochayah, and `Asayah, and `Adi'el, and Yesimi'el, and Benayah,
1Ch 4:37and Ziza the son of Shif`i, the son of Allon, the son of Yedayah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemayah--
1Ch 4:38these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly.
1Ch 4:39They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
1Ch 4:40They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.
1Ch 4:41These written by name came in the days of Hizkiyahu king of Yehudah, and struck their tents, and the Me`unim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
1Ch 4:42Some of them, even of the sons of Shim`on, five hundred men, went to Mount Se`ir, having for their captains Pelatyah, and Ne`aryah, and Refayah, and `Uzzi'el, the sons of Yish`i.
1Ch 4:43They struck the remnant of the `Amaleki who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
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