1 Chronicles 3:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Bathshua, the daughter of Ammiel - Both names are here given in an unusual form, but it may be doubted whether in either case there has been any corruption. In “Bathshua,” for “Bathsheba,” a ו (v) replaces the ב (b) of the earlier writer, “w” and “b” having nearly the same sound. In “Ammiel,” for “Eliam,” the two elements which form the name are inverted, as in Jehoiachin =Jechoniah, and the like.

1 Chronicles 3:5

5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea,b and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel: