1 Chronicles 1:39

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.

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Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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וְהוֹמָ֑ם

Hôwmâm

H1950

“and · Homam”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2000

TWOT: None

Homam = "confusion" - a descendant of Seir the Horite, the son of Lotan

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 →

7: words
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

וְהוֹמָ֑ם Homam H1950

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וְהוֹמָ֑ם Homam H1950

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֹרִ֣י Hori H2753 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

לוֹטָ֖ן Lotan H3877 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 13 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 1:39 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 36:22 The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan's sister was Timna.
Deuteronomy 2:12 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
Deuteronomy 2:22 as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:

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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.

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 1:39 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֥י לוֹטָ֖ן חֹרִ֣י וְהוֹמָ֑ם וַאֲח֥וֹת לוֹטָ֖ן תִּמְנָֽע

The sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 1:39 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποθνήσκω αδαδ καί εἰμί ἡγεμών εδωμ ἡγεμών θαμανα ἡγεμών γωλα ἡγεμών ιεθετ

And the sons of Lotan, Chorri, and Aeman; and the sister of Lotan was Thamna.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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 1:39 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(39) And Timna was Lotan’s sister.—This appears to mean that the tribe settled in the town of Timna was akin to the sons of Lotan, but not a subdivision of that tribe. Towns are feminine in Hebrew, and are sometimes called mothers (2Sa_20:19), sometimes daughters.

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

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Hôwmâm (“Homam”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Homam” (Hôwmâm) contribute to the verse as a whole?
This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
The word “Homam” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Genesis 36:22 shares the word «Hori» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“Lotan” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
“Lotan” occurs 2× in this single verse.