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jā´shen, jash´en (יש×ן, yaÌ„sheÌ„n, “asleepâ€(?)): Seemingly the father of some of David s thirty valiant men ( f). The Massoretic Text reads “Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, Shammah the Hararite,...†has Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite ...†It is clear that “sons of†are a dittography of the last three consonants of the previous word. Septuagint, Lucian in 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles has ὁ ΓουνιÌ, ho GounıÌ, “the Gunite,†for “the Gizonite,†perhaps correctly (compare ; for “Guni,†“Guniteâ€). So may be corrected thus: “Eliahba the Shaalbonite, Jashen the Gunite, Jonathan the son of Shammah the Hararite.†Jashen then becomes one of the thirty = “Hashem†of .