Amminadab is a name that mostly sits quietly inside family lines. He is the father of Nahshon, who led the tribe of Judah in the wilderness, and he stands in the generations that run from Pharez down to David, as Ruth 4:19 puts it, “Ram begat Amminadab.” Matthew spells the name Aminadab and carries it into the line of Jesus. Another Amminadab, a Levite, is called “the chief” among the sons of Uzziel when David gathers the priests and Levites to bring up the ark. Ruth 4:18-22 shows the whole line in one short passage.
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Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.
And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Kindred of the prince. (1.) The father of Nahshon, who was chief of the tribe of Judah (Num. 1:7; 2:3; 7:12, 17; 10:14). His daughter Elisheba was married to Aaron (Ex. 6:23).
(2.) A son of Kohath, the second son of Levi (1 Chr. 6:22), called also Izhar (2, 18).
(3.) Chief of the 112 descendants of Uzziel the Levite (1 Chr. 15:10, 11).
William Smith, 1884
(one of the prince’s people).
(1.) Son of Ram or Aram, and father of Nahshon, or NAASSON (as it is written) (Matthew 1:4; Luke 3:32); (Numbers 1:7; 2:3; Ruth 4:19,20; 1 Chronicles 2:10) One of the ancestors of Jesus Christ.
(2.) The chief of the 112 sons of Uzziel, a Junior Levitical house of the family of the Kohathites. (Exodus 6:23; 1 Chronicles 15:10,11)
(3.) In (1 Chronicles 6:22) Izhar, the son of Kohath, is called AMMINADIB; probably a clerical error.