Genesis 46:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

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4 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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יַחְצְאֵ֥ל

Yachtsᵉʼêl

H3183

“Jahzeel”

Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2673 and H410

TWOT: None

Jahzeel = "God divides" - the 1st of the 4 sons of Naphtali and founder of the family of Jahzeelites

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 →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יַחְצְאֵ֥ל Jahzeel H3183 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

יַחְצְאֵ֥ל Jahzeel H3183
וְגוּנִ֖י Guni H1476
וְיֵ֥צֶר Jezer H3337
וְשִׁלֵּֽם Shillem H8006

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יַחְצְאֵ֥ל Jahzeel H3183 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Numbers 26:48

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 10 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 46:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Chronicles 7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
Genesis 30:7–8 Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
Genesis 35:25 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 49:21 "Naphtali is a doe set free, Who bears beautiful fawns.
Numbers 1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan."
Numbers 1:42–43 Of the children of Naphtali, 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 26:48–50 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
Deuteronomy 33:23 Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, Full with the blessing of Yahweh, Possess you the west and the south.

2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
1 Chronicles 2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1 Chronicles 12:34 Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Genesis 46:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֖י נַפְתָּלִ֑י יַחְצְאֵ֥ל וְגוּנִ֖י וְיֵ֥צֶר וְשִׁלֵּֽם

The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

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Greek LXX Genesis 46:24 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός νεφθαλι ασιηλ καί γωυνι καί ισσααρ καί συλλημ

And the sons of Nephthalim; Asiel, and Goni, and Issaar, and Sollem.

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)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנֵי נַפְתָּלִי יַחְצְאֵל וְגוּנִי וְיֵצֶר וְשִׁלֵּם

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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 דְנַפְתָּלִי יַחְצְאֵל וְגוּנִי וְיֵצֶר וְשִׁלֵם

And the sons of Naphtali, Jakzeel, Guni, Jetser, and Shillem.

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 46:24 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.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(24) Naphtali has four sons:

Num_26:48-49. 1Ch_7:13.

Jahzeel,Jahzeel,Jahziel,Guni,Guni,Guni,Jezer,Jezer,Jezer,Shillem.Shillem.Sliallum.

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

John Gill's Exposition

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph,.... Who was the more honourable of his sons, and in greater esteem with Jacob than his elder brethren were, Reuben, Simeon, and Levi, who by their conduct had greatly displeased him: moreover, he was a man of a polite address, and had endeared himself to Joseph by his speech to him, in which he discovered so much affection both to his father, and his brother Benjamin, and was upon all accounts the fittest person to be sent to Joseph:

to direct his face unto Goshen; to inform Joseph of his father's coming, that a place might be prepared for him to dwell in, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem paraphrase it; and particularly to direct what place in Goshen he would have him come to, and meet him at:

and they came into the land of Goshen; which was the first part of the land of Egypt that lay nearest to Canaan: the Greek version of the whole verse is,"he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to meet him at Heroopolis, or the city of the heroes, in the land of Rameses,''which is confirmed by Josephus (x); See Gill on Gen 45:10.

(x) Antiqu. l. 2. c. 7. sect. 5.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, by God" (Gesenius)and Guni, (Gesenius), "Dyed" (Murphy), "Protected" (Lange)and Jezer, "Form" (Gesenius, Lange, Murphy) and Shillem (Gesenius), "Avenger" (Lange).

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

Lesson kit

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yachtsᵉʼêl (“Jahzeel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yachtsᵉʼêl carries the sense “Jahzeel.” How does it shape the verse?
4 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Numbers 26:48 shares the word «Jahzeel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

4 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.