וְאֶת אוֹפִ֥יר וְאֶת חֲוִילָ֖ה וְאֶת יוֹבָ֑ב כָּל אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֥י יָקְטָֽן
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 1:23
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 1:23 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.
English Translation
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All of these the sons of Joktan. q1
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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; All these were the sons of Joktan.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Ophir, and Hauilah and Iobab: all these were the sonnes of Ioktan.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab. All these are the sons of Jectan.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these `are' sons of Joktan.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these [are] sons of Joktan.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were descendants of Joktan.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All of these the sons of Joktan. q1
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were sons of Joktan.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. These were all Joktan's sons.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
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יָקְטָֽן
Yoqṭân
H3355
“Joktan”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 10:25
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Joktan = "smallness"
- son of Eber and descendant of Shem and patriarch of various Arabian tribes
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- אוֹפִ֥יר ʼÔwphîyr H211 “Ophir” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- חֲוִילָ֖ה Chăvîylâh H2341 “Havilah” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- יוֹבָ֑ב Yôwbâb H3103 “Jobab” Noun, Proper
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֵ֖לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “these” Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
- בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יָקְטָֽן Yoqṭân H3355 “Joktan” Noun, Proper
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is יָקְטָֽן Joktan H3355 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
יָקְטָֽן Joktan H3355 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 3 particles
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 11 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.
Cross-references
10Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
- Genesis 25:18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
- 1 Samuel 15:7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
- 1 Kings 9:28 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:11 The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones.
- 1 Chronicles 29:4 even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
- Job 22:24 Lay your treasure in the dust, The gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
- Psalms 45:9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:12 I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
υἱός ησαυ ελιφας καί ραγουηλ καί ιεουλ καί ιεγλομ καί κορε
No English rendering of this Greek verse — the small residue in the structurally divergent books.
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Lesson kit
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yoqṭân (“Joktan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Joktan” (Yoqṭân) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Genesis 10:25, which shares the word «Joktan», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Rashi read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 1:23 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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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.