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1 Chronicles 1:47

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 1:47 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 1:47 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-chronicles/1/47.

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Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
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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
    Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Hadad died, and Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    So Hadad dyed, and Samlah of Mashrecah reigned in his stead.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And when Adad also was dead, Semla of Masreca reigned in his stead.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and Hadad dieth, and reign in his stead doth Samlah from Masrekah;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and Hadad dies, and Samlah from Masrekah reigns in his stead;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Hadad died, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Hadad died, and Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Hadad died; and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah took over as king.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מִמַּשְׂרֵקָֽה Masrekah H4957 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מִמַּשְׂרֵקָֽה Masrekah H4957 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • וַיָּ֖מָת Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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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.

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:47 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 36:36 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 1:47 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּ֖מָת הֲדָ֑ד וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו שַׂמְלָ֖ה מִמַּשְׂרֵקָֽה

Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 1:47 Septuagint · lemma form
And Adad died, and Sebla of Masecca reigned in his stead.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 1:47 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

(47) Masrekah means place of Sorek vines.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 47, 48.

Though transient, not vain.

As we road these following verses and find one king mentioned and then another, with simply the record of his name, his reign, and his death, we feel how swiftly flows the current of human life, how many generations have come and gone, how slight attention posterity can spare for those who were once great and honoured. Three thoughts befit the theme

I TO EACH MAN IN HIS TIME HIS HERITAGE SEEMS LARGE AND LASTING. No doubt Samlah of Masrekah looked eagerly forward to the occupancy of his seat of power; rejoiced greatly as he took possession; said to himself, "Thou hast made my mountain to stand strong;" thought that many days of honour and wealth and joy were before him; was one more instance of the truth that "All men think all men mortal but themselves." His day of authority and enjoyment seemed bright enough to him in anticipation, and he rejoiced in his heritage. To every human eye a long and happy human life seems, at the outset and for some way on, a very possible and desirable thing. But to us, who look back on that which is over, it seems that

II THE BEST EARTHLY ESTATE IS A PAINFULLY TRANSIENT THING. What, to all these and to all other kings of all other countries, are their sceptres now? What have they been for many thousand years? Their grave is not more quiet, nor is it better known, than the last resting-place of their meanest subjects. Looking back, it seems as if their honour was but a brief flash that struck a sudden splendour and then went out into the darkness. A brief day is ours below, a little sunshine for a few fast-fleeting hours

And then night sweeps along the plain, And all things fade away.

But we have a third correcting thought, namely

III THAT OUR SHORT EARTHLY LIFE IS LONG ENOUGH TO HOLD AND TO WORK MUCH ENDURING GOOD. Though our human life is transient, and though its beauty and honour soon pass away, yet it is not lived in vain. Spent in the fear of God, devoted to the glory of Christ, and having regard to the well-being of the world, it has an excellency which true wisdom does not despise. It is not in vain

(1) that it contains pure and ennobling joy;

(2) that it illustrates Divine principles;

(3) that it diffuses bounty and blessedness on every hand;

(4) that it leaves behind it something better than it found the harvest of its own thought and toil;

(5) that it has been a preparation for a wider sphere and a larger life beyond. C.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Masrêqâh (“Masrekah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Masrekah” (Masrêqâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Genesis 36:36, which shares the word «Masrekah», read alongside this verse?
  3. 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?
  4. «וַיָּ֖מָת» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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