Family lineage often traces not just the names of descendants, but the complex dynamics of the households they come from. Four sons, Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, and Malcam, were born into the family and would eventually grow up to become the heads of their own ancestral houses [מלבי״ם].
These sons were born to a wife identified as Hodesh, though her exact identity is a matter of debate. The most straightforward understanding is that this was simply the proper name of an additional wife [מלבי״ם, ביאור שטיינזלץ]. Alternatively, the term might not be a personal name at all, but rather a descriptive title indicating that the father had married a new wife [מלבי״ם]. Taking a completely different approach, another perspective suggests that there was no new wife. Instead, this woman is the very same wife mentioned previously in the family history who had been sent away and divorced, and she was simply known by two different names [מצודת דוד].