1 Chronicles 4:13
New International Version
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

New Living Translation
The sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. Othniel’s sons were Hathath and Meonothai.

English Standard Version
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

King James Bible
And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

New King James Version
The sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel were Hathath,

New American Standard Bible
Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.

NASB 1995
Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.

NASB 1977
Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the son of Othniel was Hathath.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.

Amplified Bible
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

Christian Standard Bible
Kenaz’s sons: Othniel and Seraiah. Othniel’s sons: Hathath and Meonothai.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Kenaz’s sons: Othniel and Seraiah. Othniel’s sons: Hathath and Meonothai.

American Standard Version
And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English


Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the sons of Kenez; Gothoniel, and Saraia: and the sons of Gothoniel; Athath.

Contemporary English Version
Kenaz was the father of Othniel and Seraiah. Othniel had two sons: Hathath and Meonothai,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Cenez were Othoniel,. and Saraia. And the sons of Othoniel, Hathath, and Maonathi.

English Revised Version
And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Kenaz's sons were Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.

Good News Translation
Kenaz had two sons, Othniel and Seraiah. Othniel also had two sons, Hathath and Meonothai.

International Standard Version
Kenaz's descendants were Othniel and Seraiah. Othniel's descendants were Hathath

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

Literal Standard Version
And sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and sons of Othniel: Hathath.

Majority Standard Bible
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

New American Bible
The sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai;

NET Bible
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

New Revised Standard Version
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

New Heart English Bible
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

World English Bible
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.

Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah; and sons of Othniel: Hathath.

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Context
More Descendants of Judah
12Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, of Paseah, and of Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah. 13The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai. 14Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.…

Cross References
1 Chronicles 4:12
Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, of Paseah, and of Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah.

1 Chronicles 4:14
Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.


Treasury of Scripture

And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

Kenaz.

Joshua 15:17
And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

Judges 1:13
And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

Judges 3:9-11
And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother…

Hathath.

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1 Chronicles 4
1. The posterity of Judah by Caleb, the son of Hur.
5. Of Ashur, the posthumous son Hezron.
9. Of Jabez, and his prayer.
11. The other families of the same stock.
21. The sons of Shelah.
24. The posterity and cities of Simeon.
39. Their conquest of Gedor, and of the Amalekites in mount Seir.














Verses 13-15. - We return here to the neighbourhood of names not quite strange. From comparison of the many passages in Numbers, Joshua, and Judges, which contain references to Othniel and Caleb (son of Jephunneh), the stronger conclusion to which we are led is that Othniel was younger brother of Caleb (probably not by both the same parents) and Kenaz a forefather, of course not literally father. The conclusion is not arrived at without difficulty, or with any real certainty. In the present instance, e.g., why should Othniel, if the younger brother and so expressly and repeatedly mentioned, be taken first? For the possible Kenaz of this passage, we might then refer to 1 Chronicles 1:53; Genesis 36:42. Hathath. The marginal reading, which joins Meonothai at once to Hathath, and then supplies "who" before "begat Ophrah," is decidedly to be adopted. Joab son of Seraiah is not to be assumed to be one with Joab son of Zeruiah. The valley of the Charashim (see also Nehemiah 11:35), i.e. smiths, or craftsmen, lay east of Jaffa, and behind the plain of Sharon; and is said by Jerome, in his 'Quaestiones Hebraicae in Paral.,' to have been, according to tradition, named so because the architects of the temple came thence. Iru. Perhaps the real name is It, and the final vau rather an initial for the next name. Elah. Probably another name is wanting after this, which the vau will then join to Kenaz; otherwise, as vau will not translate "even," the following name will become, as in the margin, Uknaz. The wanting name might be the Jehalaleel of the next verse. This last name is in the Hebrew identical with the Jehalelel of our Authorized Version (2 Chronicles 29:12).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The sons
וּבְנֵ֣י (ū·ḇə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Kenaz:
קְנַ֔ז (qə·naz)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7073: Kenaz -- an Edomite, also two Israelites

Othniel
עָתְנִיאֵ֖ל (‘ā·ṯə·nî·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6274: Othniel -- a hero in Israel

and Seraiah.
וּשְׂרָיָ֑ה (ū·śə·rā·yāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8304: Seraiah -- 'Yah persists', the name of a number of Israelites

The sons
וּבְנֵ֥י (ū·ḇə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Othniel:
עָתְנִיאֵ֖ל (‘ā·ṯə·nî·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6274: Othniel -- a hero in Israel

Hathath and Meonothai.
חֲתַֽת׃ (ḥă·ṯaṯ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2867: Hathath -- an Israelite


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