Numbers 26:24

Summary

The verse records two clan names within a tribal genealogy: Yashuv ("Jashub", H3437H) with his descendant clan the Yashuvi ("Jashubite", H3432), and Shimron ("Shimron", H8110B) with his descendant clan the Shimroni ("Shimronite", H8117). The structure simply pairs each eponymous ancestor with the name of the clan descended from him.

Key words

• le ("of/to", H9005) — the preposition prefixed to each personal name, marking possession/origin: "belonging to Jashub," "belonging to Shimron."
• mishpachat ("clan of", H4940) — feminine singular construct noun, meaning it must be followed by another noun to complete its meaning ("clan of the Jashubite").
• ha-Yashuvi ("the Jashubite", H3432) — gentilic adjective with definite article, masculine singular, denoting the collective group descended from Jashub rather than an individual.
• ha-Shimroni ("the Shimronite", H8117) — same gentilic pattern as above, applied to the descendants of Shimron.

What the text says

The Hebrew sentence is built entirely from two repeated syntactic units: [preposition le + personal name] followed by [mishpachat in construct + definite gentilic]. This creates a formulaic genealogical register: "Of [ancestor], the clan of the [ancestor]-ite." The construct noun mishpachat ("clan of", H4940) cannot stand alone grammatically — it requires the following gentilic noun to complete its sense, and that gentilic itself is marked with the definite article ha (H9009), which in this construct chain functions almost like a relative marker ("the one[s] of Jashub").

The repetition of the same grammatical pattern for both names (Yashuv → ha-Yashuvi; Shimron → ha-Shimroni) shows how the census list moves systematically from an ancestor's proper name to the corresponding clan designation, formed by adding the gentilic ending to the ancestor's name. No verbs appear in the verse; it is a pure nominal listing, typical of the genealogical census format found throughout Numbers 26.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate (Jasub, a quo familia Jasubitarum: Semran, a quo familia Semranitarum) and the Spanish versions (RV1909, SBLIBRE) follow the Hebrew pattern closely, rendering both the ancestor's name and the derived clan name. The BSB gives an equivalent sense but reverses the word order ("the Jashubite clan from Jashub" rather than "of Jashub, the clan of the Jashubites").

The LXX text supplied here (Σαφῶν, Ἁγγεί, Σουνεί, attributed to "sons of Gad") does not correspond to the Hebrew names Yashuv and Shimron in this verse; it reflects a different set of clan names, indicating that the LXX passage cited belongs to another portion of the tribal list rather than being a direct rendering of Numbers 26:24 as preserved in the Hebrew text given.