אַלּ֥וּף קְנַ֛ז אַלּ֥וּף תֵּימָ֖ן אַלּ֣וּף מִבְצָֽר
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 1:53
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 1:53 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
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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World English Bible Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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King James Version Public Domain
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
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Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
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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
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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King James Version Public Domain
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
,53Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke Mabsar,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
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Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
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Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
the chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar;
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מִבְצָֽר
Mibtsâr
H4014
“Mibzar”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 36:42
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Mibzar = "fortress"
- one of the chiefs of Edom
- אַלּ֥וּף ʼallûwph H441 “intimate” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- קְנַ֛ז Qᵉnaz H7073 “Kenaz” Noun, Proper
- אַלּ֥וּף ʼallûwph H441 “intimate” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- תֵּימָ֖ן Têymân H8487 “Teman” Noun, Proper
- אַלּ֣וּף ʼallûwph H441 “intimate” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- מִבְצָֽר Mibtsâr H4014 “Mibzar” 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 →
- 6
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מִבְצָֽר Mibzar H4014 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִבְצָֽר Mibzar H4014 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אַלּ֥וּף intimate H441 ×3
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 6 words from the Hebrew and 8 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.
prince Kenez, prince Thaeman, prince Babsar, prince Magediel,
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 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mibtsâr (“Mibzar”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Mibzar” (Mibtsâr) shape what this verse is saying?
- Genesis 36:42 shares the word «Mibzar» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “intimate” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- “intimate” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.