Genesi 46:23

23 E il figliuolo di Dan fu Husim.

Genesi 46:23 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 46:23

And the sons of Dan, Hushim.
] He had but one son, wherefore the plural is put for the singular, see ( Genesis 46:7 Genesis 46:15 ) ; Aben Ezra thinks he had two sons, and that one of them was dead, and therefore not mentioned; but the other way best accounts for the expression; though, as Schmidt observes, the plural may be indefinitely put, and the sense be this, as for the sons of Dan, there was only one, whose name was Hushim. Dan was a son of Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel's maid, as the following was another.

Genesi 46:23 In-Context

21 E i figliuoli di Beniamino furono Bela, e Becher, e Asbel, e Ghera, e Naaman, ed Ehi, e Ros, e Muppim, e Huppim, e Ard.

22 Questi sono i figliuoli di Rachele, i quali nacquero a Giacobbe: in tutto quattordici persone.

23 E il figliuolo di Dan fu Husim.

24 E i figliuoli di Neftali furono Iaseel, e Guni, e Ieser, e Sillem.

25 Questi sono i figliuoli di Bilha, la quale Labano diede a Rachele, sua figliuola: ed ella partorì costoro a Giacobbe; in tutto sette persone.