Ahumai
Ahumai was a descendant of Judah through his grandson Reaiah. (1Ch.4.2)
Biography
Ahumai was a descendant of Judah through the lineage of Shobal, son of Hur, son of Caleb. According to 1 Chronicles 4:2, Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad, making Ahumai the great-grandson of Shobal and a fourth-generation descendant of the Calebite branch of Judah. He is described as a forefather of the families of the Zorathites, suggesting he was an eponymous ancestor of settlers associated with Zorah, a town in the Shephelah region of Judah made famous in Scripture as the hometown of Samson (Judg. 13:2). Like most individuals in 1 Chronicles 4, Ahumai appears without personal narrative, defined entirely by his place in the genealogical chain.
Significance
Ahumai's place in the Judahite genealogies of 1 Chronicles 4 connects him to Caleb, one of the two faithful spies who trusted God's promise and was rewarded with an inheritance in the land (Num. 14:6–9; Josh. 14:6–14). The Calebite clans preserved in these genealogies represent a tradition of land-possession won through faith, and Ahumai as a descendant of that line inherits that legacy. The association of his family with Zorah is geographically significant: this borderland town between Judah and Dan was a site where God's Spirit moved powerfully in the Samson narratives. Ahumai thus represents a strand of Judahite heritage connected both to faithful conquest and to the ongoing activity of God's Spirit in the land.
Verse Appearances (1)
1 Chronicles
References
- Orr, J. (ed.) (1915) The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Chicago: Howard-Severance Company. [Public Domain]
- Tyndale House, Cambridge (n.d.) Translators Individualised Proper Names with all References (TIPNR). STEPBible. Available at: https://www.stepbible.org. [CC BY 4.0]
- Church of England (1769) The Holy Bible, Authorized (King James) Version. [Public Domain]