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A mighty man of valour, or, a man of great strength of body, or courage of mind, or both.
Industrious; ingenious, and diligent, and active, and every way fit for business and for command.
Over all the charge, i.e. the taxes and tributes which were to be gathered of the people by his power and authority.
Of the house of Joseph; either of Ephraim and Manasseh, who were jointly comprehended under this name, Jos_17:17; or of Ephraim only, who elsewhere comes under that name, as 1Ch_5:1 Psa_78:67 Eze_37:6. And it seems most probable that each tribe had a several ruler.