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1 Chronicles 1:18

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 1:18 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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1 Chronicles 1:18 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-chronicles/1/18.

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Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Also Arpachshad begate Shelah, and Shelah begate Eber.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Arphaxad beget Sale, and Sale beget Heber.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Arphaxad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    -- And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Arpachshad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber.

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5
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְאַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד Arphaxad H775 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְאַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד Arphaxad H775 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • יָלַ֣ד Qal · Perfect
  • יָלַ֥ד Qal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • יָלַ֣ד to bear H3205 ×2
  • שָׁ֑לַח Shelah H7974 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 3 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 5 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 10:24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah. Shelah became the father of Eber.
  • Genesis 11:12–15 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 3 words vs World English Bible 13. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 1:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאַרְפַּכְשַׁ֖ד יָלַ֣ד אֶת שָׁ֑לַח וְשֶׁ֖לַח יָלַ֥ד אֶת עֵֽבֶר

Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 1:18 Septuagint · lemma form

μασμα ιδουμα μασση χοδδαδ θαιμαν

and Arphaxad, Sala,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 1:18 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ch 1:18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

Ver. 18. Beget Eber.] From whom came the Hebrews.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Of him came the Hebrews, which were afterward called Israelites of Israel, which was Jacob: and Jews of Judah because of the excellency of that tribe.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Arphaxad begat Shelah--Cainan, the father's name, is omitted here. (See Luk 3:36).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

18–23 (= Gen_10:24-29). The Descent of the South Arabian Tribes

18. Eber] The Heb. word usually means “the land beyond.” Perhaps here we have a personification of the population beyond the Euphrates.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Sale. The Roman Septuagint omits ver. 11 to 17, and ver. 18 to 24, having only, (17) "The sons of Sem, Ailam and Assur; (24) and Arphaxad, Sala." (Haydock) --- But the other copies here insert Cainan, as the father of Sale. See Genesis x. 24. (Calmet) --- It is a matter of great doubt whether he ought not to be inserted, Luke iii. (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Arphaxad begat Shelah; either immediately, or mediately by his son Cainan, who is expressed, Luk 3:35, of which, God assisting, I shall speak in its proper place.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Begat - Either immediately, or mediately by his son Cainan, who is expressed, Luke iii, 35.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼArpakshad (“Arphaxad”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word ʼArpakshad carries the sense “Arphaxad.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Genesis 10:22, which shares the word «Arphaxad», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to bear” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  5. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  6. «יָלַ֣ד» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  7. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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