וַיָּ֖מָת שָׁא֑וּל וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו בַּ֥עַל חָנָ֖ן בֶּן עַכְבּֽוֹר
Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 1:49
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 1:49 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
Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor 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
Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
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King James Version Public Domain
And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his place.
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
Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.
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King James Version Public Domain
And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the sonne of Achbor reigned in his stead.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And when Saul was dead, Balanan the son of Achobor reigned in his stead.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Shaul dieth, and reign in his stead doth Baal-Hanan son of Achbor;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Shaul dies, and Ba‘al-Hanan son of Achbor reigns in his stead;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Akbor reigned in his place.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Shaul died, and Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his place.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Saul died; and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Shaul died, and Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan, son of Acbor, took over as king.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, became king in his place.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
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עַכְבּֽוֹר
ʻAkbôwr
H5907
“Achbor”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 36:38
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Achbor = "mouse"
- father of king Baal-hanan of Edom
- son of Michaiah and contemporary of king Josiah of Judah
- וַיָּ֖מָת mûwth H4191 “and · to die” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שָׁא֑וּל Shâʼûwl H7586 “Saul” Noun, Proper
- וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ mâlak H4427 “and · to reign” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- תַּחְתָּ֔יו tachath H8478 “under · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- בַּ֥עַל Baʻal Chânân H1177 “Baal-hanan” Noun, Proper
- חָנָ֖ן Baʻal Chânân H1177 “Baal-hanan” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- עַכְבּֽוֹר ʻAkbôwr H5907 “Achbor” 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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is עַכְבּֽוֹר Achbor H5907 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עַכְבּֽוֹר Achbor H5907 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- וַיָּ֖מָת Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בַּ֥עַל Baal-hanan H1177 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 12 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.
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.
And Saul died, and Balaennor son of Achobor reigned in his stead.
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 →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻAkbôwr (“Achbor”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Achbor” (ʻAkbôwr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 36:38, which shares the word «Achbor», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “Baal-hanan” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיָּ֖מָת» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- “Baal-hanan” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 1:49 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.