translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Many English versions spell this name “Ibsam.”


text: Many English versions retain a form of this name closer to the Hebrew, i.e., “Shemuel.”


text: Heb “heads of the house of their fathers.”


text: Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”


text: The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.


text: Heb “and unto them by their generations to the house of their fathers [were] troops of war of battle, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.”


text: Heb “and their brothers, according to all the clans of Issachar, the warriors [were] 87,000 listed in the genealogical records for all.”


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew text has simply “Benjamin,” but בְּנֵי ( bÿney , “sons of”) has dropped out by haplography ( בְּנֵי בִּנְיָמִן , bÿney binyamin ).


text: The name “Aher” appears as “Ahiram” in Num 26:38 .


text: The name “Jahziel” appears as “Jahzeel” in Gen 46:24 .


text: Most Hebrew mss read “Shallum”; some Hebrew mss and some LXX mss read “Shillem,” the form of the name that appears in Gen 46:24 and Num 26:49 .


text: Some translations treat the terms שֻׁפִּים ( shuppim ) and חֻפִּים ( khuppim ) as proper names of individuals (“Huppim” and “Shuppim”), but others consider these forms to be plurals and refer to tribal or clan names.


text: Heb “and the name of the second was Zelophehad.”


text: Heb “he”; the referent (Ephraim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “because in tragedy there had come to his house.” The preposition prefixed to רָעָה ( ra ’ ah ) should probably be omitted. The Hebrew noun רָעָה (“tragedy”) should be understood as the subject of the feminine verb form that follows.


text: The antecedent of the pronoun “his” is not clear. The translation assumes that v. 25 resumes the list of Ephraim’s descendants (see vv. 20-21 a) after a lengthy parenthesis (vv. 21 b-24).


text: The Hebrew text has simply “Resheph,” but the phrase “his son” has probably been accidentally omitted, since the names before and after this one include the phrase.


text: Heb “Non” (so KJV, NASB; cf. Exod 33:11 , where the more familiar spelling “Nun” occurs).


text: For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: “Beth Shean” is a variant spelling of “Beth Shan.”


text: For location see Map1-D4 ; Map2-C1 ; Map4-C2 ; Map5-F2 ; Map7-B1 .


text: The Hebrew text has אֲחִי (’ akhiy , “the brother of”), but this should probably be emended to אֲחִיו (’ akhiyv , “his brother”). Cf. v. 35 . Most English versions treat this Hebrew word as a proper name (“Ahi”) and list it before “Rohgah.”


text: Or “Shomer,” cf. v. 32 .


text: “Hubbah” is the marginal reading ( Qere ); the consonantal text ( Kethib ) has “Jachbah.”


text: Or “Hotham,” cf. v. 32 .


text: The name “Ithran” is sometimes understood to be another name for “Jether” (v. 38 ).


text: Heb “all these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, selected, warriors, heads of the leaders, and there was listed in the genealogical records in war, in battle, their number, men, 26,000.”