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Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah; Maasai son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
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wa·‘ă·ḏā·yāh ben- yə·rō·ḥām ben- paš·ḥūr ben- mal·kî·yāh ū·ma‘·śay ben- ‘ă·ḏî·’êl ben- yaḥ·zê·rāh ben- mə·šul·lām ben- mə·šil·lê·mîṯ ben- ’im·mêr
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√ ʻĂdâyâh — Adajah, the name of eight IsraelitesConjunctive wawNounpropermasculine singular
ʻĂdâyâh: Adajah, the name of eight Israelites Strong's itself records that eight different men carry this name, which is the exact difficulty of a verse like this: the lexicon can identify the word and not the man. Ellicott shows the parallel at Nehemiah 11:12 giving the same Adaiah with three more links (Pelaliah, Amzi, Zechariah) between Jeroham and Pashhur, and calls it “another illustration of the freedom of the compiler in dealing with these lists.” The Chronicler is abridging a real line, not inventing one.
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
bên: a son, as a builder of the family name Strong's gloss is worth pausing over in a chapter that is nothing but names: the son is defined as the builder of the family name, and in the widest sense the word reaches past literal descent to grandson, subject, nation, even quality or condition. That semantic width is why Poole can say “the son of Pashur” here means his great-grandson without straining the Hebrew; the construct chain claims descent, not necessarily one generation.
√ Yᵉrôchâm — Jerocham, the name of seven or eight IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
Yᵉrôchâm: Jerocham, the name of seven or eight Israelites Strong's cannot even fix the count (“seven or eight”), a candid admission built into the lexicon.
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ Pashchûwr — Pashchur, the name of four IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
Pashchûwr: Pashchur, the name of four Israelites The Verifier finds this lexeme shared with Jeremiah 20:1 and 21:1, where a Pashhur son of Immer is the temple officer who strikes Jeremiah and puts him in the stocks. The shared name is a fact of the lexicon; identity of persons is not, and no commentator in this brief asserts it. What the register does establish is that the houses of Pashhur and Immer outlived the catastrophe Jeremiah announced.
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ Malkîyâh — Malkijah, the name of ten IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
Malkîyâh: Malkijah, the name of ten Israelites Ellicott states plainly that “Malchijah was the fifth of the twenty-four priestly classes,” and Cambridge agrees, both pointing to 1 Chronicles 24:9. The name is doing double duty in the verse: it ends Adaiah's pedigree and names the course he serves in, which is why K&D reads the whole ancestry as a route back to a class rather than as family sentiment.
√ Maʻăsay — Maasai, an IsraeliteConjunctive wawNounpropermasculine singular
Maʻăsay: Maasai, an Israelite One bearer only, and even he is uncertain. Cambridge judges Nehemiah's Amashsai corrupt and the Chronicles form suspicious; Ellicott harmonizes them as variants of Amasai. Two named public-domain authorities here read the same evidence in opposite directions, and the honest note is that the brief supplies no basis for deciding between them.
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ ʻĂdîyʼêl — Adiel, the name of three IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
ʻĂdîyʼêl: Adiel, the name of three Israelites A genuinely rare lexeme: it stands in only three verses in the whole Hebrew Bible (here, 1 Chronicles 4:36, 1 Chronicles 27:25). Rarity is what normally licenses a verbal link, but here the three bearers are a priest, a Simeonite, and David's treasury officer, so frequency proves nothing about identity. Cambridge suspects the name is a corruption of Nehemiah's Azareel, and Ellicott says Adiel “may well be a mistake for Azareel.”
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ Yachzêrâh — Jachzerah, an IsraeliteNounpropermasculine singular
Yachzêrâh: Jachzerah, an Israelite Ellicott: Jahzerah and Nehemiah's Ahzai are “evidently two forms of one name.”
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ Mᵉshullâm — Meshullam, the name of seventeen IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
Mᵉshullâm: Meshullam, the name of seventeen Israelites Seventeen bearers, the most crowded name in the verse. Ellicott raises a textual possibility rather than smoothing it over: Meshullam here is “either an additional link, or a copyist's anticipation of part of the following name,” since Meshillemith stands next in the chain. That is a scribe's eye admitted into the commentary, not concealed by it.
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ Mᵉshillêmîyth — Meshillemith, an IsraeliteNounpropermasculine singular
Mᵉshillêmîyth: Meshillemith, an Israelite A single bearer, and Nehemiah 11:13 gives the same link in the form Meshillemoth. Its presence immediately after Meshullam is what prompts Ellicott's suspicion that the preceding name is “a copyist’s anticipation of part of the following name,” since the two names open with the same consonants in the Hebrew. The brief supplies no way to settle the question, and we leave it open rather than quietly dropping a link.
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine singular construct
√ ʼImmêr — Immer, the name of five IsraelitesNounpropermasculine singular
ʼImmêr: Immer, the name of five Israelites The last word of the verse and the weight-bearing one: Immer is the sixteenth priestly course (1 Chronicles 24:14), so the chain does not merely end, it lands. Gill traces the pedigree “through Jahzerah, Meshullam, Meshillemith, to Immer; one of the five heads of the courses settled by David.” The point of eight repetitions of ben is to prove that a returning priest still stands in an order David appointed before the exile.