Every named figure.

Judahite descendant of Coz; head of the Aharhel families (1 Chronicles 4:8).

Son of Shimon in the Judahite list. Distinct from Amnon son of David.

Eponym of 'the house of Ashbea' — a guild of fine linen workers descending from the Shelah line (1 Chronicles 4:21).

Son of Shimon.

Son of Ishi (or, per Hebrew, 'son of Zoheth') in 1 Chronicles 4:20.

Son of Eshton in the Judahite list (1 Chronicles 4:12).

Wealthy Bethlehemite of Judah; son of Salmon and Rahab. Acted as kinsman-redeemer for Naomi, marrying Ruth and fathering Obed. Pillar of the temple Jachin/Boaz named for him.

Younger son of Elimelech and Naomi; husband of Orpah; died in Moab childless.

Bethlehemite of Judah; husband of Naomi. In a famine, took his family to Moab where he died.

Father of Lecah; descendant of Shelah son of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:21). Distinct from Er the firstborn of Judah by Tamar.

Son of Ishbah son of Mered (1 Chronicles 4:17); eponym of the Levitical city of Eshtemoa. Distinct from Eshtemoa the Maacathite of v. 19.

Eponym of the Maacathite family of Eshtemoa (a Levitical city in southern Judah). Distinct from Eshtemoa son of Ishbah.

Son of Mehir; father of Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah father of Ir-nahash.

Patriarch of a Judahite family group in 1 Chronicles 4:3, with sons Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash and daughter Hazzelelponi. Often understood as the eponym of the place of Etam (cf. Judges 15:8).

Judahite of the Hur line; father of Hushah (the Hushathite ancestral place from which Sibbecai the warrior came). Distinct from many other Ezers.

Judahite, father of Aharhel whose families descend from him (1 Chronicles 4:8).

Son of Othniel the first judge, named in the Calebite genealogy of Judah (1 Chronicles 4:13).

Sister of Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash in the Judahite genealogy of 1 Chronicles 4:3.

Judahite who married the sister of Naham; ancestor of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. Distinct from Hodiah the Levite teacher of Nehemiah 8 and Hodiah the sealer.

Brother of Jezreel and Ishma in the Judahite list of Etam.

Son of Tehinnah, eponym of the city of Nahash; the formula 'X father of Y' often denotes the founder/clan-head of the named place.

Father of Zoheth and Ben-zoheth in 1 Chronicles 4:20. Distinct from Ishi the Simeonite (1 Chronicles 4:42) and Ishi the Manassite.

Brother of Jezreel and Idbash in the Judahite list of Etam.

Son of Ashhur of Tekoa by his wife Helah. Distinct from Izhar the Kohathite Levite (father of Korah).

Son of Reaiah son of Shobal in the Judahite Hur line; father of Ahumai and Lahad of the Zorathite families. Distinct from Jahath the Levite of Gershom and Jahath the Merarite.

Of the Shelanites in 1 Chronicles 4:22; the place-name and the personal name are difficult to disentangle in the Hebrew.

Son of Obed; Bethlehemite of Judah; father of David and seven other sons. The 'stump of Jesse' from which the messianic shoot would arise (Isaiah 11:1).

Son of Etam (or Etam's father, per LXX) in the Judahite genealogy of 1 Chronicles 4:3. Distinct from Jezreel the city and the symbolic son of Hosea.

Son of Seraiah; ancestor of the craftsmen of Ge-harashim ('Valley of Craftsmen'). Distinct from Joab son of Zeruiah.

Judahite who 'had dominion in Moab' (1 Chronicles 4:22). Distinct from Joash king of Judah, Joash king of Israel, Joash father of Gideon, and Joash the Benjamite warrior.

Of the Shelanites; named with the men of Cozeba and Joash and Saraph in 1 Chronicles 4:22.

Eponym of the Garmite family of Keilah (a town in the Judean lowlands); descendant of Hodiah's wife the sister of Naham.

Father of Mareshah and ancestor of the linen-working houses of Ashbea (1 Chronicles 4:21).

Son of Er son of Shelah (1 Chronicles 4:21); often read as a place name founded by him.

Elder son of Elimelech and Naomi; first husband of Ruth the Moabitess; died in Moab childless.

Son of Laadah of the Shelah line; eponym of the city Mareshah in the Shephelah. Distinct from Mareshah son of Caleb of 1 Chronicles 2:42.

Son of Chelub; father of Eshton in the Judahite genealogy.

Brother of Othniel in some MT manuscripts; father of Ophrah in the Judahite genealogy of 1 Chronicles 4:13-14.

Judahite whose sister was wife of Hodiah; thus brother-in-law of Hodiah (1 Chronicles 4:19).

Bethlehemite woman, wife of Elimelech; lost her husband and both sons in Moab and returned bitter (calling herself Mara, 'bitter') with her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth. Engineered Ruth's marriage to Boaz.

Son of Boaz and Ruth; father of Jesse and grandfather of David. Distinct from other figures of the same name.

Son of Meonothai. Distinct from the city of Ophrah in Manasseh associated with Gideon.

Son of Kenaz, younger brother (or nephew) of Caleb; first judge of Israel. Captured Kiriath-sepher and married Caleb's daughter Achsah. Delivered Israel from Cushan-rishathaim of Aram-naharaim. The land had rest forty years.

Judahite of the Hur line; father of Gedor (a town in southern Judah). Distinct from Penuel son of Shashak and the place Penuel of Genesis 32.

Son of Shimon.

Moabite widow of Mahlon; refused to leave Naomi ('whither thou goest, I will go'). Married Boaz under the levirate principle and bore Obed, grandfather of David. Named in Matthew 1:5.

Of the Shelanites; ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem (1 Chronicles 4:22, with text uncertain).

Father of Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon in the Judahite list (1 Chronicles 4:20). Distinct from Simeon son of Jacob and Simeon the Cyrenian.

Unnamed Judahite woman, sister of Naham and wife of Hodiah (1 Chronicles 4:19); mother of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

Son of Eshton; father of Ir-nahash, called the 'father of the city of Nahash.'

Son of Shimon.

Son of Ishi in the Judahite list.