1 Chronicles 1:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 1:9 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 1:9 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-chronicles/1/9.

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The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raamah and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the sonnes of Cush, Siba and Hauilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. Also the sonnes of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabathaca. And the sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecka. And sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecka. And sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raamah and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    -- And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raama: Sheba, and Dedan.

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11
words
9
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְסַבְתָּ֥א Sabta H5454 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְסַבְתָּ֥א Sabta H5454 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 11 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וּבְנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2
  • וְרַעְמָ֖א Raamah H7484 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 22 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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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 1:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֣י כ֔וּשׁ סְבָא֙ וַחֲוִילָ֔ה וְסַבְתָּ֥א וְרַעְמָ֖א וְסַבְתְּכָ֑א וּבְנֵ֥י רַעְמָ֖א שְׁבָ֥א וּדְדָֽן

The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 1:9 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός χους σαβα καί ευιλατ καί σαβαθα καί ρεγμα καί σεβεκαθα καί υἱός ρεγμα σαβα καί ουδαδαν

And the sons of Chus, Saba, and Evila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sebethaca: and the sons of Regma, Saba, and Dadan.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 1:9 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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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 9. Seba, and Havilah] "Sindi and Hindi, and Semadaei, and Libyes and the Zingitae; but the sons of the Mauritanians, Demargad and Mesag." - T.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

9. the sons of Cush] According to some authorities Seba and Havilah are to be sought in Africa on the W. coast of the Red and the Gulf of Aden, while Sabta, Raamah, and Sabtecha (R.V. Sabteca) are to be sought in Arabia. According to another view (Sayce, Higher Criticism, p. 133) all five tribes belonged to Arabia.

Seba] In Isa_43:3; Isa_45:14 Seba (the Sabeans) is mentioned along with Egypt and Cush, and in Psa_72:10 along with Sheba. The first two passages suggest Africa, the third Arabia as Seba’s home.

Sheba and Dedan] The same two names occur together in 1Ch_1:32 as descendants of Shem through Jokshan. Possibly the same two tribes are meant in both places, and Sheba and Dedan were of mixed origin, Hamitic and Semitic.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Çabtâʼ (“Sabta”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Sabta” (Çabtâʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Genesis 10:7, which shares the word «Sabta», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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