Genesis 46:10 names him as a son of Shim'on (Simeon).
Gesenius insists - and he is very rarely wrong - that the name stems from the root Ahad (אהד) = "to join together". But surely the Yehudit root for "to join together" is Achad with a Chet (ח) and not Ahad with a Hey (ה); whence Echad = the number One, and Achdut = "unity" or "togetherness"?
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