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josh-be-ka'-sha, josh-be-kash'-a (yoshbeqashah, "son" of Heman; 1Ch 25:4,24): The last 8 or 9 names in per 4 are taken by commentators to be not names but the words of a prayer. See OTJ C2, 143, note; Curtis, Chron, 278, 280; SBOT.