Exodus 6:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵ֖לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֣י בֵית־אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּנֵ֨י רְאוּבֵ֜ן בְּכֹ֣ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל חֲנ֤וֹךְ וּפַלּוּא֙ חֶצְר֣וֹן וְכַרְמִ֔י אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת רְאוּבֵֽן׃

Transliteration

these rāʾšê bêt-ʾăḇōtām bənê Rəʾûḇēn bəḵōr Yiśrāʾēl Ḥănôḵ û-Pallûʾ Ḥeṣrôn wə-Ḵarmî these mišpəḥōt Rəʾûḇēn

Grammar Details

• these: demonstrative pronoun *ʾēlleh* - these
• *rāʾšê*: noun, masculine plural construct - heads of
• *bêt-ʾăḇōtām*: noun construct + noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - house of their fathers
• *bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons of
• *Rəʾûḇēn*: proper noun - Reuben
• *bəḵōr*: noun, masculine singular construct - firstborn of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *Ḥănôḵ*: proper noun - Hanoch
• *û-Pallûʾ*: conjunction + proper noun - and Pallu
• *Ḥeṣrôn*: proper noun - Hezron
• *wə-Ḵarmî*: conjunction + proper noun - and Carmi
• *mišpəḥōt*: noun, feminine plural construct - families of

Word Meanings

• *rāʾšê*: heads, chiefs, leaders
• *bêt-ʾăḇōtām*: house of their fathers, ancestral house, patriarchal family
• *bənê*: sons, children, descendants
• *Rəʾûḇēn*: Reuben
• *bəḵōr*: firstborn, first son, eldest
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: Israel, Jacob
• *Ḥănôḵ*: Hanoch, Enoch
• *Pallûʾ*: Pallu
• *Ḥeṣrôn*: Hezron
• *Ḵarmî*: Carmi
• *mišpəḥōt*: families, clans, kindreds

Referenced Verses

• Gen 46:9 : 9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
• 1 Chr 5:3 : 3 The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
• Num 26:5-7 : 5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
• Josh 13:15 : 15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
• Josh 13:23 : 23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
• Josh 14:1 : 1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
• Josh 19:51 : 51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
• 1 Chr 5:24 : 24 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
• 1 Chr 7:2 : 2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
• 1 Chr 7:7 : 7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
• 1 Chr 8:6 : 6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:
• Gen 49:3-4 : 3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
• Exod 6:25 : 25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.