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Bela

Also called Belah

Mentioned 1705–1451 BC traditional (Jones)

The eldest son of Benjamin (Num. 26:38; “Belah,” Gen. 46:21).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Benjamin
Children
Ard, Naaman, Abihud, Abishua, Addar, Ahoah, Ezbon, Gera, 4 more
Siblings
Ard, Ashbel, Becher, Ehi, Gera, Huram, Nohah, Rapha, 3 more
Tagged in
7 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent. Large families are folded into one node; select it to open them.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1769–1387 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

7 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Genesis1
  2. Numbers2
  3. 1 Chronicles4

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBBela 14Belah 0
KJVBela 13Belah 1
ASVBela 14Belah 0

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 7 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis1 verse
  1. 46:21

    The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Numbers2 verses
  1. 26:38

    These were the descendants of Benjamin by their clans: The Belaite clan from Bela, the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel, the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram,

  2. 26:40

    And the descendants of Bela from Ard and Naaman were the Ardite clan from Ard and the Naamite clan from Naaman.

1 Chronicles4 verses
  1. 7:6

    The three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.

  2. 7:7

    The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, heads of their families—five in all. There were 22,034 mighty men of valor listed in their genealogies.

  3. 8:1

    Benjamin was the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,

  4. 8:3

    The sons of Bela: Addar, Gera, Abihud,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

The eldest son of Benjamin (Num. 26:38; “Belah,” Gen. 46:21).