Person

Zerah (son of Judah)

세라 (유다의 아들)

Person in Genesis 38:24–30: Zerah (son of Judah).

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1CH 2:3–4, engwebp
³The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah, which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight; and he killed him.
⁴Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
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1CH 2:5–8, engwebp
⁵The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
⁶The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five of them in all.
⁷The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
⁸The son of Ethan: Azariah.
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GEN 38:24–30, engwebp
²⁴About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
²⁵When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, “I am with child by the man who owns these.” She also said, “Please discern whose these are—the signet, and the cords, and the staff.”
²⁶Judah acknowledged them, and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I didn’t give her to Shelah, my son.” He knew her again no more.
²⁷In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.
²⁸When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came out first.”
²⁹As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
³⁰Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
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GEN 46:8–27, engwebp
⁸These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
⁹The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
¹⁰The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
¹¹The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
¹²The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
¹³The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
¹⁴The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
¹⁵These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
¹⁶The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
¹⁷The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
¹⁸These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
¹⁹The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
²⁰To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
²¹The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
²²These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
²³The son of Dan: Hushim.
²⁴The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
²⁵These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
²⁶All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
²⁷The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
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JOS 7:1, engwebp
¹But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against the children of Israel.
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JOS 7:16–18, engwebp
¹⁶So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.
¹⁷He brought near the family of Judah, and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.
¹⁸He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.
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JOS 7:22–26, engwebp
²²So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.
²³They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before the LORD.
²⁴Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
²⁵Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
²⁶They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. The LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.
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JOS 22:13–20, engwebp
¹³The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.
¹⁴With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.
¹⁵They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
¹⁶“The whole congregation of the LORD says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following the LORD, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against the LORD?
¹⁷Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of the LORD,
¹⁸that you must turn away today from following the LORD? It will be, since you rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
¹⁹However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of the LORD, in which the LORD’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the LORD our God’s altar.
²⁰Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”
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MAT 1:1–17, engwebp
¹The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
²Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.
³Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.
⁴Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.
⁵Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.
⁶Jesse became the father of King David. David the king became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.
⁷Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.
⁸Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.
⁹Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.
¹⁰Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.
¹¹Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
¹²After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.
¹³Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.
¹⁴Azor became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.
¹⁵Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.
¹⁶Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
¹⁷So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.
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NEH 11:19–24, engwebp
¹⁹Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
²⁰The residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.
²¹But the temple servants lived in Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.
²²The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers responsible for the service of God’s house.
²³For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
²⁴Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
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NUM 26:19–22, engwebp
¹⁹The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
²⁰The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
²¹The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
²²These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.
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Unresolved interpretation: The sons of Zerah at 1 Chronicles 2:6, and Ethan, Heman, Calcol and Darda at 1 Kings 4:31

1 Chronicles 2:6 says, “The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five of them in all,” and 2:8, “The son of Ethan: Azariah.”
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- 1CH 2:5–8, engwebp
  ⁵The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
  ⁶The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five of them in all.
  ⁷The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
  ⁸The son of Ethan: Azariah.
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1 Kings 4:30–31 says, “Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations all around.” The Korean Revised Version reads 예스라 사람 에단과 마홀의 아들 헤만과 갈골과 다르다, where 마홀의 아들 (the son of Mahol) stands before Heman’s name.
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- 1KI 4:29–34, engwebp
  ²⁹God gave Solomon abundant wisdom, understanding, and breadth of mind like the sand that is on the seashore.
  ³⁰Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  ³¹For he was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations all around.
  ³²He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered one thousand five.
  ³³He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.
  ³⁴People of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, sent by all kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
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1 Chronicles 2:6 names the sons of Zerah, “Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five of them in all”, and 2:8 names Azariah the son of Ethan. 1 Kings 4:31 says that Solomon was wiser than “Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol”, where the Korean Revised Version sets 마홀의 아들 (the son of Mahol) before Heman’s name. Both editions write the name of 1 Chronicles 2:6 and that of 1 Kings 4:31 otherwise (the Korean 다라 and 다르다, WEB Dara and Darda). The text does not say whether the names of 1 Chronicles 2:6 are the men of 1 Kings 4:31. This collection records the five names of 1 Chronicles 2:6 in the list 1ch-2-6-8 without linking them to the entries of 1 Kings 4:31, and does not decide whether they are the same men.

Unresolved interpretation: Achar son of Carmi at 1 Chronicles 2:7 and Achan son of Carmi in Joshua 7

1 Chronicles 2:6 names the sons of Zerah, and 2:7 says, “The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.” The text does not name Carmi’s father. The Korean Revised Version reads 가르미의 아들은 아갈이니 저는 마땅히 멸할 물건으로 인하여 이스라엘을 괴롭게 한 자며 (the son of Carmi was Achar; he was one who troubled Israel because of the thing that should be destroyed).
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- 1CH 2:5–8, engwebp
  ⁵The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
  ⁶The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five of them in all.
  ⁷The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
  ⁸The son of Ethan: Azariah.
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Joshua 7:1 says, “But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things,” and at 7:24–25 Joshua and all Israel with him take Achan the son of Zerah to the valley of Achor, and Joshua says, “Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you today.”
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- JOS 7:1, engwebp
  ¹But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against the children of Israel.
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- JOS 7:22–26, engwebp
  ²²So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.
  ²³They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before the LORD.
  ²⁴Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
  ²⁵Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
  ²⁶They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. The LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.
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1 Chronicles 2:7 calls Achar the son of Carmi “the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing” (the Korean Revised Version 마땅히 멸할 물건으로 인하여 이스라엘을 괴롭게 한 자), and does not name Carmi’s father. Joshua 7:1 says that Achan the son of Carmi took some of the devoted things, and at 7:24–25 Joshua takes Achan and says, “Why have you troubled us?” Both editions write other names in the two books (the Korean 아갈 and 아간, WEB Achar and Achan); the Korean also writes 가르미 and 갈미, and WEB Carmi in both. This collection records the Carmi and Achar of 1 Chronicles 2:7 as names of the list 1ch-2-6-8 without linking them to the entries of Joshua 7, and does not decide whether they are the same men.

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Judah (son of Jacob) — Father of — Zerah (son of Judah)

Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:3–4, Genesis 38:24–30, Matthew 1:1–17, Numbers 26:19–22
Tamar (Judah narrative) — Mother of — Zerah (son of Judah)

Evidence: 1 Chronicles 2:3–4, Genesis 38:24–30, Matthew 1:1–17
Zerah (son of Judah) — Father of — Zabdi (father of Carmi)

Evidence: Joshua 7:1
Appears in the narrated event (2) — Tamar and the birth of twins, The names of Israel’s household who came into Egypt

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Genesis 38:30 Open that verse

Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.

Joshua 7:1 Open that verse

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against the children of Israel.

Joshua 7:18 Open that verse

He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

Joshua 7:24 Open that verse

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

Joshua 22:20 Open that verse

Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”

1 Chronicles 2:4 Open that verse

Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

1 Chronicles 2:6 Open that verse

The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five of them in all.

Nehemiah 11:24 Open that verse

Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.

Matthew 1:3 Open that verse

Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.

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Entry: Zerah (son of Judah) (person-zerah-judah)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/zerah-judah
Current wording: Person in Genesis 38:24–30: Zerah (son of Judah).
Cited evidence: 1CH 2:3–4, engwebp / 1CH 2:5–8, engwebp / GEN 38:24–30, engwebp / GEN 46:8–27, engwebp / JOS 7:1, engwebp / JOS 7:16–18, engwebp / JOS 7:22–26, engwebp / JOS 22:13–20, engwebp (and 3 more of 11)
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