Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Chronicles 4:16

"And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel." — 1 Chronicles 4:16 (ASV)

The sons of Jehaleleel. —Hebrew: Yehallel-çl, “he praises God.”

Ziph is known, from Joshua 15:21, 24, as one of the cities of the children of Judah, towards the border of Edom, southwards. Perhaps, therefore, the sons of Jehallel-el also were Edomite-Kenizzites. Another Ziph, perhaps our Ziphah, is mentioned as in the hill-country, Joshua 15:55.

Asareel is perhaps a dialectal form of Israel (see 1 Chronicles 25:2, 14). A foreign clan might take the name of its adopted people.