Genesis 46:23

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The son of Dan: Hushim.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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חֻשִֽׁים

Chûwshîym

H2366

“Hushim”

Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: plural from H2363

TWOT: None

Hushim = "who makes haste" - one of the two wives of Shaharaim (noun proper feminine) - the sons of Aher, a Benjamite (noun proper masculine) - descendants of Dan (noun proper masculine)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

3: words
3: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חֻשִֽׁים Hushim H2366 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

חֻשִֽׁים Hushim H2366

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֻשִֽׁים Hushim H2366 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 5 words from the Hebrew and 6 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 3 Hebrew tokens and 4 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Genesis 46:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 30:6 Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
Genesis 35:25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 49:16–17 "Dan will judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.
Numbers 1:12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 1:38–39 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 10:25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 26:42–43 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
Deuteronomy 33:22 Of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub, That leaps forth from Bashan.

1 Chronicles 2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1 Chronicles 7:12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.
1 Chronicles 12:35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Genesis 46:23 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵי דָ֖ן חֻשִֽׁים

The son of Dan: Hushim.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 46:23 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός δέ δαν ασομ

And the sons of Dan; Asom.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנֵי דָן חֻשִׁים

(no public-domain English translation for this verse)

Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנוֹי דְדָן זְרִיזִין וְאַמְפּוּרִין וְלֵית סְכוּם לְמִנְיָנֵיהוֹם

The sons of Dan, able men (or armed) and merchants, of whose numbers there is no end (or sum).

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 46:23 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(23) Dan has one son, Hushim, called Shuham in Num_26:42. No genealogy of this tribe is given in Chronicles.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

23. sons] Only one name is given. No list of Danites appears in 1 Chronicles 2-8.

Hushim] In Num_26:42, Shuham. Hushim in 1Ch_8:8 belongs to Benjamin.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the sons of Joseph, which were born in Egypt, were two souls,.... Ephraim and Manasseh; which is observed to show that they do not come into the above reckoning, but are to be taken into another that follows:

all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten; here it may be observed, the phrase is varied; it is not said, "all the souls which came out of the loins of Jacob", but "all the souls of the house" or family of Jacob; all that that consisted of, and takes in Jacob himself, the head of his house or family; nor is it said, "which came with Jacob into Egypt", as before, but "which came into Egypt"; not which came with him thither, but yet were there by some means or another, as Joseph and his two sons; Joseph by being brought down, and sold there, and his two sons by being born there; if therefore Jacob, Joseph, and his two sons, are added to the above number of sixty six, it will make seventy; as for the account of Stephen, making the number seventy five; see Gill on Act 7:14.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Sons. The Arabic has son. Husim is Suham, (Numbers xxvi. 42,) by change and transposition of letters. (Kennicott)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The Pulpit Commentary

And the sons of Dan; Hushim who make haste" (Gesenius); designated Shuham in Num_26:42.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Hushim ... Jahziel, Guni, Jezer ... Shillem

These are the names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)

Bilhah

This is the name of Rachel's female servant. See how you translated this name in Genesis 29:29. (See: How to Translate Names)

seven in all

This refers to the 7 children and grandchildren related to Bilhah. (See: Numbers)

translationWords

Dan

Naphtali

Laban

Rachel

Jacob

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Radak

Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)

ובני דן חושים. At the time he moved to Egypt he had only this one son. The reason the Torah commences our verse with the word ובני, “and the sons of, etc.,” is as if the Torah had meant to say “and all the sons of Dan were only one, i.e. Chushim.” Similar formulations are found in Chronicles I 2,8 ובני איתן עזריה, where Azaryah, though the only son of Eytan, is described as part of Eytan’s children, i.e. בני.

Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Ibn Ezra

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra

The sons of Don [were] Chushim. Note the plural — “sons.” He may have had another son who died.

Ibn Ezra on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0); and “Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chûwshîym (“Hushim”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Hushim” (Chûwshîym) shape what this verse is saying?
This is the first place “Hushim” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does 1 Chronicles 7:12, which shares the word «Hushim», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 3 Hebrew ↔ 4 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.