1 Chronicles 7:23

23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

1 Chronicles 7:23 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 7:23

And when he went in to his wife
After his grief and sorrow in part at least had subsided:

she conceived and bare a son;
which in some measure made up for the loss he had sustained:

and he called his name Beriah;
which signifies being "in evil" or calamity, he being born in an evil time:

because it went evil with his house;
or evil was in his house, as Noldius ^F13, in his family; a great calamity had befallen it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Ebr. Concord. Part. No. 750. p. 165.

1 Chronicles 7:23 In-Context

21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, who had been living in the land from their birth, put to death, because they came down to take away their cattle.

22 And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

24 And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah.

25 And Rephah was his son, and Resheph; his son was Telah, and his son was Tahan;