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BrLXX Καὶ υἱοὶ Ἐσρὶ, Ἰεθὲρ, Μωρὰδ, καὶ Ἄφερ, καὶ Ἰαμών· καὶ ἐγέννησεν Ἰεθὲρ τὸν Μαρὼν, καὶ τὸν Σεμεῒ, καὶ τὸν Ἰεσβὰ πατέρα Ἐσθαίμων·
(Kai huioi Esri, Iether, Mōrad, kai Afer, kai Yamōn; kai egennaʸsen Iether ton Marōn, kai ton Semei, kai ton Iesba patera Esthaimōn;)

BrTr And the sons of Esri; Jether, Morad, and Apher, and Jamon: and Jether begot Maron, and Semei, and Jesba the father of Esthæmon.

ULT And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon. And she conceived Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

UST 17-18 The sons of Ezrah, another descendant of Judah, were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Mered married Bithiah, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt. The children of Mered and Bithiah were Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah. Ishbah was the father of Eshtemoa. Mered had a wife from Judah. She gave birth to Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel. Jered was the father of Gedor. Heber was the father of Soco. Jekuthiel was the father of Zanoah.

BSB & MSB • The sons of Ezrah:
• Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon.
• And [Mered ’s wife Bithiah] gave birth[fn] to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

4:17 Literally she gave birth

OEB No OEB CH1 4:17 book available

WEBBE & WMBB The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and Mered’s wife bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

NET The sons of Ezrah:
¶ Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon.
¶ Mered’s wife Bithiah gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

LSV And sons of Ezra: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she bears Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah father of Eshtemoa.

FBV The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. One wife of Mered[fn] was the mother of Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.[fn]

4:17 “Mered”: assumed from the context of the following verse.

4:17 “Father”: in the sense of “founder” of the town of that name.

T4T • 17-18 Another descendant of Judah was Ezrah. Ezrah’s sons were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Mered married Bithiah, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt. The children of Mered and Bithiah were Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah. Ishbah was the father of Eshtemoa. Ezrah also had a wife from Judah. She gave birth to Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel. Jered was the father of (OR, founded the town of) Gedor, Heber was the father of (OR, founded the town of) Soco, and Jekuthiel was the father of (OR, founded the town of) Zanoah.

LEB The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And she became pregnant with Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

BBE And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

Moff 17-18 the sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. The children of Bithiah, daughter of the Pharaoh, who married Mered and bore children to him, were Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the founder of Eshtemoa, whose wife, a Jewess, bore Jered the founder of Gedor and Heber the founder of Soko and Jekuthiel the founder of Zanoah.

JPS And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa —

ASV And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

DRA And the sons of Esra, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon, and he beget Mariam, and Sammai, and Jesba the father of Esthamo.

YLT And sons of Ezra [are] Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she beareth Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah father of Eshtemoa.

Drby — And the sons of Ezra: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she conceived [and bore] Miriam, and Shammai, and Jishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

RV And the sons of Ezrah; Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

SLT And the sons of Ezra, Jether and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she will conceive Miriam and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

Wbstr And the sons of Ezra were , Jethur, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

KJB-1769 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

KJB-1611 And the sonnes of Ezra were: Iether, and Mered, and Epher, and Ialon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, & Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And the sonnes of Ezra: were, Iether, Mered, Epher, and Ialon: and he begat Miriam, and Sammai, and Iisbah the father of Esthemoa.
(And the sons of Ezra: were, Yether, Mered, Epher, and Yalon: and he begat Miriam, and Sammai, and Iisbah the father of Esthemoa.)

Gnva And the sonnes of Ezrah were Iether and Mered, and Epher, and Ialon, and he begate Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
(And the sons of Ezrah were Yether and Mered, and Epher, and Yalon, and he begat Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.)

Cvdl The childre of Esra were: Iether, Mered, Epher & Ialon, & Thahar with Miriam, Samai, Ie?bah the father of Esthemoa,
(The children of Esra were: Yether, Mered, Epher and Yalon, and Thahar with Miriam, Samai, Ye?bah the father of Esthemoa,)

Wycl And the sones of Esra weren Chether, and Merid, and Epher, and Jalon; and he gendride Marie, and Semmai, and Jesba, the fadir of Eschamo.
(And the sons of Esra were Chether, and Merid, and Epher, and Yalon; and he begat/gave_birth_to Mary/Maria, and Semmai, and Yesba, the father of Eschamo.)

Luth Die Kinder aber Esras waren: Jether, Mered, Epher und Jalon, und Thahar mit Mirjam, Samai, Jesbah, dem Vater Esthemoas.
(The children but Ezra’s were: Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon, and she_conceived with Miriam, Shammai, Ishbah, to_him father Eshtemoa’s.)

ClVg Et filii Ezra, Jether, et Mered, et Epher, et Jalon, genuitque Mariam, et Sammai, et Jesba patrem Esthamo.[fn]
(And children Ezra, Yether, and Mered, and Epher, and Yalon, and_gave_birth Mariam, and Shammai, and Ishbah father Eshtemoa.)

4.17 Ezra. RAB-HIERON.. Aiunt Hebræi Ezram, qui interpretatur auxiliator, esse Amram patrem Moysi et Aaron; Jether, id est, auxilium, esse Aaron; et Mered, qui rebellans, esse Moysen. Epher quoque vel Opher, id est, pulverem, Heldad fuisse. Jalon vero et Meldath, qui duo de septuaginta senioribus fuerunt, quos Moyses a Deo accepit ad regendi populi auxilium: tradunt enim Moysen post acceptam legem in eremo patri suasisse, ut matrem dimitteret, eo quod ipsius amica esset, fuit enim filia Levi, postquam Amram duxit aliam ex qua habuit Heldath et Meldath. Genuitque Mariam. ID. Sammai Moysen intelligi volunt, etc., usque ad quia populum in eremo gubernavit, et doctrina sua quotidie gubernat.

4.17 Ezra. RAB-HIERON.. They_say Hebrews Ezra, who/which interprets helper, to_be Amram father of_Moses and Aaron; Yether, that it_is, help/aid(n), to_be Aaron; and Mered, who/which rebelling, to_be Moses. Epher too or Ophir, that it_is, dust, Heldad to_have_been. Yalon indeed/however and Meldath, who/which two from/about seventy seniors/elders they_were, which Moses from to_God he_received to to_rule of_the_people help/aid(n): they_deliver because Moses after accepted the_law in/into/on desert to_his_father to_have_suggested, as mother would_release, by_him that of_his/her_own girlfriend was, it_was because daughter Levi, after Amram led another from which had Heldath and Meldath. And_gave_birth Mariam. ID. Shammai Moses to_be_understood they_want, etc., until to because the_people in/into/on desert governed, and teaching/instruction his_own daily governs.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-versebridge

General Information:

You may want to combine the information in 1 Chronicles 4:17–18 into one verse so its meaning can be more easily understood.

Note 2 topic: translate-names

(Occurrence 0) Ezrah … Jether … Mered … Epher … Jalon … Miriam … Shammai … Ishbah … Eshtemoa

(Some words not found in UHB: and,the_son_of Ezrah Yeter/(Jether) and,Mered and,Epher and,Jalon and=she/it_conceived/became_pregnant DOM Miryām and=DOM Shammay and=DOM Yishbaḩ/(Ishbah) father_of ʼEshtəmoˊa )

These are the names of men.

(Occurrence 0) These were the sons of Bithiah

The word “these” refers to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah. They were the sons Bithiah bore for her husband Mered.

(Occurrence 0) Bithiah

This is the name of a woman.

BMM BibleMapper.com Maps:

Poster Map of the Towns and Clans of Eastern Judah, circa 1200 B.C.

As Israel invaded Canaan and conquered the land, the Israelite tribe of Judah was allotted a very large portion of it for their inheritance. Their territory was the southernmost allotment of all the tribes, stretching from Jerusalem in the north to Kadesh-barnea in the south. In reality, though, their primary area of occupation was limited to the region shown on this map, due to the Philistines’ occupation of the western coast and the extremely arid conditions of the land in the far south. Also, the Bible notes that the allotment of the tribe of Simeon “formed part of the territory of Judah; because the portion of the tribe of Judah was too large for them, the tribe of Simeon obtained an inheritance within their inheritance” (Joshua 19:9), and this is confirmed by the explicit mention of over twenty towns being allotted to both tribes (see Joshua 15:20-63; 19:1-9). The Kenites, who were not ethnic Israelites (they were descendants of Moses’ father-in-law; see Judges 1:16) but lived in peaceful coexistence with them, also occupied the arid land to the southwest of the Dead Sea.

Scripture further details many of the clans and sub-clans of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:1-55; 4:1-23). Most (or perhaps all) of these clan names corresponded with names of various towns in Judah, since towns in ancient Israel were often named after the ancestor of the clan that founded or predominantly occupied the town. It is interesting to note that an Israelite judge named Jair was descended from Judah by his father’s lineage, but his father’s mother was from the tribe of Manasseh, and when Jair conquered many towns in Manasseh’s territory of Gilead and Bashan (Numbers 32:40-42; Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 13:30; Judges 10:3-5; 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Chronicles 2:22-23; see “Bashan” map), those towns continued to be regarded as belonging to Manasseh. Perhaps this was in keeping with the tribe of Manasseh’s openness to inheritance by female descendants in certain cases, such as with Zelophahad’s daughters (Numbers 27; Joshua 17:1-6; see “Poster Map of the Tribe of Manasseh (West) and Its Surroundings, circa 1200 B.C.”).

Two centuries later the tribe of Judah gave rise to the enduring dynasty of King David, who initially ruled over only the tribe of Judah but eventually over all the Israelite tribes (2 Samuel 2-4; see “David and Ishbosheth” map). After the death of David’s son Solomon, however, the northern tribes revolted, leaving only Judah and Benjamin under the Davidic dynasty’s domain (1 Kings 12; 2 Chronicles 10; see “The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah” map). Several decades after the northern kingdom was exiled by the Assyrians (2 Kings 15:29; 1 Chronicles 5:26; see “Israelites Are Exiled to Assyria” map) the kingdom of Judah suffered a similar fate at the hands of the Babylonians (Daniel 1; 2 Kings 24-25; 2 Chronicles 36; Jeremiah 39; 52; see “Judah Is Exiled to Babylon” map). Unlike the northern kingdom, however, Judah was typically allowed to maintain their common identity and religious distinctives during their time in exile (see The Land of Exile map), thus fostering their sense of continuity with the past tribe and kingdom of Judah.

Parallel 1 CHR 4:17

General Information:

Poster Map of the Towns and Clans of Eastern Judah, circa 1200 B.C.

Parallel 1 CHR 4:17