Teks -- 1 Kings 4:8 (NET)

4:8 These were their names: Ben-Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Ki 4:8 - The son, &c.

_This and others of them are denominated from their fathers, because they were known and famous in their generation.

JFB: 1Ki 4:8 - The son of Hur

Or, as the Margin has it, Benhur, Bendekar. In the rural parts of Syria, and among the Arabs, it is still common to designate persons not by their own names, but as the sons of their fathers.

TSK: 1Ki 4:8 - The son of Hur

The son of Hur : or, Ben-hur, Jdg 17:1, Jdg 19:1

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Ki 4:8

This and others of them are denominated from their fathers, because they were known and famous in their generation.

Haydock: 1Ki 4:8 - Benhur. Ben

Benhur. Ben here, and in the following verses, may signify "the son of Hur, " &c. (Calmet) ---

Septuagint retain both the original term, and its explanation, "Ben the son of Or." But they afterwards read only "the son of Dakar....of Esed....of Abinadab....and Gaber."

Gill: 1Ki 4:8 - And these are their names // the son of Hur, in Mount Ephraim

And these are their names,.... Or rather the names of their fathers; for of many of them not their own names but their fathers' names are given, as being well known:

the son of Hur, in Mount Ephraim; a fruitful country in the tribe of Ephraim, from whence this officer was to furnish the king with provisions for one month in the year.