1 Chronicles 2:21. The father of Gilead It is doubtful whether the word Gilead is here the name of a man, or of the country so called: if it be the latter, the expression means, the prince of Gilead, as the word father often signifies: if the former, the Gilead intended must have been a person of noted valour, probably the great champion in those parts.
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1 Chronicles 2:21
21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he marriedh when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.