1 Chronicles 1:54

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

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מַגְדִּיאֵ֖ל

Magdîyʼêl

H4025

“Magdiel”

Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 36:43

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4022 and H410

TWOT: None

Magdiel = "prince of God" - a descendant of Esau and one of the chiefs of Edom

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
5: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מַגְדִּיאֵ֖ל Magdiel H4025 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מַגְדִּיאֵ֖ל Magdiel H4025 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Genesis 36:43

Grammatical profile

6 nouns
1 pronoun

Repetition

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

אַלּ֥וּף intimate H441 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 1:54 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Genesis 36:41–43 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

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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 1:54 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אַלּ֥וּף מַגְדִּיאֵ֖ל אַלּ֣וּף עִירָ֑ם אֵ֖לֶּה אַלּוּפֵ֥י אֱדֽוֹם

chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 1:54 Septuagint · lemma form

prince Zaphoin. These are the princes of Edom.

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 1:54 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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The Biblical Illustrator

Joseph S. Exell

1Ch_1:54

These are the dukes of Edom.

A high order of names

The great lesson teaches the transitoriness of all human dignity and glory. Where are the dukes of Edom now? Who knows the names of Timnah, Allah, Jetheth? How far are our own names known? What will be thought of them in the next century? Men are not to be estimated by their renown, but by them in the next goodness and their local influence. In the Christian Church we have come to a higher order of names than was ever known in secular history. Men may now be called sons of God, saints, slaves of Jesus Christ, inheritors of the world of light: let us aspire after these higher titles, for they never perish. The titles which men give soon expire: the titles which God confers are vital with His own Eternity. (J. Parker, D. D.)

The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ch 1:54. These are the dukes of Edom — Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone through the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All these and all theirs had their day: many of them made a mighty noise in the world, until their day came to fall, and their place knew them no more. The paths of death are trodden paths. How soon are we to tread them!

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(54) These are the dukes (chiliarchs) of Edom.—Eleven names only are given, whereas there were twelve (or thirteen) chiliarchs of Edom (Gen_36:15-19; see Note on 1Ch_1:35-37). A name may have fallen out of the ancient text from which the chronicler derived the list.

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

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

These are the dukes of Edom - Let us, in reading these genealogies, think of the multitudes that have gone thro' the world, have successively acted their parts in it, and retired into darkness. All these and all theirs had their day; many of them made a mighty noise in the world; until their day came to fall, and their place knew them no more. The paths of death are trodden paths. How soon are we to tread them?

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Magdîyʼêl (“Magdiel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Magdiel” (Magdîyʼêl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Genesis 36:43, which shares the word «Magdiel», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “intimate” (3× 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?
Compare how The Biblical Illustrator and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“intimate” occurs 3× in this single verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.