“The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.”
King James Version (KJV)
3:3 His wife - Possibly so called because she was his first, andtherefore most proper wife, though her son was born after all the restbefore mentioned, and therefore she and her son are put in the sixthplace, the wive being here named only for the sons sake.