Divrey Hayamim Alef 7:23

23 And when he went in to his isha, she conceived, and bore ben, and he called shmo Beri’ah, because it went in ra’ah (evil, disaster, misfortune) with his bais.

Divrey Hayamim Alef 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.

Divrey Hayamim Alef 7:23 In-Context

21 And Zavad bno, and Shutalach bno, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the anashim of Gat that were born in that land slaughtered, because they came down to take away their mikneh (livestock).

22 And Ephrayim avihem mourned many days, and his achim came to comfort him.

23 And when he went in to his isha, she conceived, and bore ben, and he called shmo Beri’ah, because it went in ra’ah (evil, disaster, misfortune) with his bais.

24 (And his bat was She’erah, who built Lower Beit-Choron, and the Upper, and Uzzen She’erah.)

25 And Refach was bno, also Resheph, and Telach bno, and Tachan bno,