Hupham

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

HUPHAM or HUPPIM. Genesis 46:21; 1 Chronicles 7:12; 1 Chronicles 7:15; Numbers 26:38-39.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Numbers 26:39Genesis 46:21 1 Chronicles 7:15Genesis 46:21Numbers 26:381 Chronicles 7:61 Chronicles 8:1-2 Numbers 26:39-401 Chronicles 7:71 Chronicles 8:3-4

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HUPHAM . See Huppim.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Hu'pham. (coast-man). A son of Benjamin, founder of the family of the Huphamites. Numbers 26:39. (B.C. 1688).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hū´fam ( חוּפם , ḥūphām , "coast-inhabitant"): One of Benjamin's sons and head of the Huphamite family ( Numbers 26:39 ). See Huppim .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Chiupham', חוּפָם, according to Gesenius perh. coast-man, according to Furst screened; Sept. omits, but some eds. have Ο᾿φαμ; Vulg. Hupham), a person apparently mentioned as one of the sons of Benjamin (Numbers 26:39); elsewhere less correctly called HUPPIM (Genesis 46:24). His descendants are called HUPHIMITES (Hebrew Chuphanzi', חוּפָמַי, Sept. omits, but some eds. Ο᾿φαμί,Vulg. Huphamitce, Numbers 26:39). B.C. 1856. The name Huppim being in the plural (Heb. Chuppim', חֻפַּים, coverings; Sept. omits in Genesis 46:21, but some copies have ᾿Θφμίν or Ο᾿φιμίμ; as a son of Bela; Vulg. Ophim.), suggests the possibility that it is a contraction for Huphamites. (See Shuppim).

The only other passages where it occurs are 1 Chronicles 7:12 (Sept. Ἀφείμ, Vulg. Hapham) and 15 (Sept. Ἀφφείμ, Vulg. Happhim), in both which it has the same fraternity with Shuppim, and in the latter mention is made of a sister Maachah as married to Machir, the son of Manasseh by a concubine, while in the former Huppim and Shuppim are expressly called the sons of Ir, apparently a son of Benjamin additional to the three mentioned in 1 Chronicles 7:6, but probably not the Iri mentioned in 1 Chronicles 7:7. Hence results the probability that Hupham, whose descendants are thus spoken of, was a grandson of Benjamin, and consequently a son of one of his five sons expressly named in order in 1 Chronicles 8:1-2, but whether of the fourth or fifth is uncertain. (See Benjamin).