1 Chronicles 1:35

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.

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וְיַעְלָ֥ם

Yaʻlâm

H3281

“and · Jaalam”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 36:5

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5956

TWOT: None

Jaalam = "concealed" - an Edomite, descendant of Esau

About this verse

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7: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְיַעְלָ֥ם Jaalam H3281 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְיַעְלָ֥ם Jaalam H3281 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 13 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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 7 Hebrew tokens and 10 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

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 36:4–5 Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.
Genesis 36:9–10 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 1:35 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֖י עֵשָׂ֑ו אֱלִיפַ֛ז רְעוּאֵ֥ל וִיע֖וּשׁ וְיַעְלָ֥ם וְקֹֽרַח

The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.

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Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 1:35 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποθνήσκω αδαδ καί βασιλεύω ἀντί αὐτός σαμαα ἐκ μασεκκα

The sons of Esau, Eliphaz, and Raguel, and Jeul, and Jeglom, and Core.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 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 1:35 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

These were born of three divers mothers, read Gen. 36:4.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(35-37) The sons of Esau.—Comp. Gen_36:9-13. In 1Ch_1:36 the name of Timna occurs under the general heading, “Sons of Eliphaz.” According to Gen_36:12, Timna was a secondary wife of Eliphaz, and mother of Amalek. Strange as this difference may at first sight appear, it is in fact absolutely unimportant. The writer’s intention being simply to enumerate the principal branches of the sons of Eliphaz, the statement of the special relations between the different clans might be omitted here, as fairly and naturally as the relations between Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth are left unnoticed in 1Ch_1:4. Comp. also 1Ch_1:17, where Uz, Hul, &c, are apparently co-ordinated with Aram, although Gen_10:23 expressly calls them “sons of Aram.” The Vatican MS. of the LXX. has our text; the Alexandrine MS. follows that of Gen_36:12. It is at least curious that if Timna-Amalek be excluded from account, the sons of Esau are twelve in number. The fact is obscured in the compressed statement of the chronicler; but it becomes evident by reference to Gen_36:11-14, where five sons are reckoned to Eliphaz (1Ch_1:11), four to Reuel (1Ch_1:13), and three to Esau’s wife Aholibamah (1Ch_1:14), viz.: Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. Although 1Ch_1:12 of that passage reckons Amalek with the sons of Adah, mother of Eliphaz, it distinctly separates Timna-Amalek from the sons of Eliphaz. It would seem that Amalek was known to be but remotely connected with the pure Edomite stocks. For the or-fanisation of a people in twelve tribes, &c., comp. Ewald, Hist, of Israel, 1:362, and his Antiq. of Israel, § 280. However, Gen_36:15-19 enumerates Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, Gatam, and Amalek, sons of Eliphaz; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah, sons of Reuel; and Jeush, Jaalam, Korah, sons of Aholibamah; as chiliarchs (allûfîm—LXX., φύλαρχοι) or chieftains of Esau-Edom.

(35-42) The tribes of Esau and Seir, extracted from Genesis 36

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

The sons of Esau: Eliphaz in order to deal with him briefly and to cast him away; he only mentioned him in honor of Isaac.

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.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yaʻlâm (“Jaalam”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yaʻlâm carries the sense “Jaalam.” How does it shape the verse?
Genesis 36:5 shares the word «Jaalam» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.