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1 Chronicles 5:12

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Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
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1 Chronicles 5:12

COMBINED MEANING

chief

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1. First, principal, highest, leading, greatest, most excellent, most important, or most responsible in rank, order, degree, value, or guilt. 2. A leader, head, principal ruler, officer, or principal member of a group.

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next

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Nearest or immediately succeeding in place, time, order, or turn.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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5:11¶ And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:

5:12Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

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5:13And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.

5:14These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

5:15Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.

5:16And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.

5:17All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

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