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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Rosh (Man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness)

Genesis 46:21 lists him among the sons of Benjamin who went down to Egypt with Jacob. He is missing from the longer lists of Benjamin's line in Numbers 26 and 1 Chronicles 7 and 8.

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Genesis 46:21 lists him among the sons of Benjamin who went down to Egypt with Jacob. He is missing from the longer lists of Benjamin's line in Numbers 26 and 1 Chronicles 7 and 8.

Who this is

Rosh was one of the sons of Benjamin listed among those who went to Egypt with Jacob in Genesis 46:21, though he does not appear in the later, more detailed genealogies of Benjamin's line in Numbers 26 or 1 Chronicles 7-8. The word rosh also occurs in Ezekiel 38:2-3, where it is usually translated "chief," an unrelated term rather than a reference to this same figure or, as older commentators once speculated, to Russia.

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The word

H7220

Where it appears
  • Genesis 46:21

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