plant; verdure; moist; pot
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
SHUTHELAH.One of the three clans of the tribe of Ephraim (Num_26:35, [gentilic Shuthelahite] 36). In the parallel passage, 1Ch_7:20-21, the foundation text has been expanded and mis-written.
J. F. McCurDy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
SHUTHALHITES (Num_26:35). Ancestor of Joshua (1Ch_7:20-27). Lord A. C. Hervey, viewing 1 Chronicles 7 as corrupt, restores the line of Shuthelah thus:
(1) Joseph;
(2) Ephraim;
(3) Shuthelah;
(4) Eran or Laadan;
(5) Ammihud;
(6) Elishama, captain of Ephraim (Num_1:10);
(7) Nun;
(8) Joshua. The affair with the men of Gath (Jos_7:20-27; Jos_8:13) was probably after Israel's settlement in Canaan; and Ephraim and Shuthelah mean the individuals of their descendants who represented them as heads of the tribe or family. The Ephraimite settlements in the mountain district containing Bethhoron, Gezer, and Timnath Serah, were suited for a descent on the Philistine plain containing Gath. Benjamin helped Ephraim against the men of Gath. The Ephraim who mourned for his sons Ezer and Elead was not the patriarch son of Joseph, but a descendant who bore Ephraim's name.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Shu'thelah. (noise of breaking). Head of an Ephraimite family, called, after him, Shuthalhites, Num_26:35, and lineal ancestor of Joshua, the son of Nun. 1Ch_7:20-27.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
(Heb. Shuthe'lach, שׁוּתֶלִח, perhaps noise of breaking [Gesenius], or setting [i.e. son] of Shelach [Furst], or fresh plant [Muhlau]; Sept. in Numbers Σουθαλά or Σουταλά v.r. Θουσαλά or Θωσουσαλά, in Chronicles Σωθαλά v.r. Σωθαλέ and Σωθαλάθ), the name of two Ephraimites.
1. First named of the three sons of Ephraim, but not father of Eran (Num_26:35-36), though whom he became the progenitor of a family that bore both their names (1Ch_7:20). B.C. post 1856 and ante 1802. SEE BERED.
2. A descendant of the preceding, being the son of Zabad and the father of Ezer and Elead (1Ch_7:21). B.C. apparently post 1618.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.