וַיַּ֥רְא נֹשֵֽׂא כֵלָ֖יו כִּ֣י מֵ֣ת שָׁא֑וּל וַיִּפֹּ֥ל גַּם ה֛וּא עַל הַחֶ֖רֶב וַיָּמֹֽת
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 10:5
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 10:5 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
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.
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King James Version Public Domain
And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the carrier of his equipment saw that Saul had died, so he fell, he also, on sword, and he died.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his own sword and died.
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King James Version Public Domain
And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise vpon the sworde, and dyed.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And when his armourbearer saw it, to wit, that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and the bearer of his weapons seeth that Saul `is' dead, and falleth, he also, on the sword, and dieth;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and the bearer of his weapons sees that Saul [is] dead, and falls, he also, on the sword, and dies;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword and died.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the carrier of his equipment saw that Saul had died, so he fell, he also, on sword, and he died.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword and died.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And when his servant saw that Saul was dead, he did the same, and came to his death.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died.
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כֵלָ֖יו
kᵉlîy
H3627
“vessels · his”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 325× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 24:53
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
article, vessel, implement, utensil
- article, object (general)
- utensil, implement, apparatus, vessel
- implement (of hunting or war)
- implement (of music)
- implement, tool (of labour)
- equipment, yoke (of oxen)
- utensils, furniture
- vessel, receptacle (general)
- vessels (boats) of paper-reed
- וַיַּ֥רְא râʼâh H7200 “and · to see” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- נֹשֵֽׂא nâsâʼ H5375 “lifting” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- כֵלָ֖יו kᵉlîy H3627 “vessels · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- כִּ֣י kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
- מֵ֣ת mûwth H4191 “to die” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שָׁא֑וּל Shâʼûwl H7586 “Saul” Noun, Proper
- וַיִּפֹּ֥ל nâphal H5307 “and · to fall” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- גַּם gam H1571 “also” Particle, Accusative
- ה֛וּא hûwʼ H1931 “he” Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
- הַחֶ֖רֶב chereb H2719 “the · sword” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וַיָּמֹֽת mûwth H4191 “and · to die” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 →
- 12
- words
- 11
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 5 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 pronoun
- 1 preposition
- 1 conjunction
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיַּ֥רְא Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- נֹשֵֽׂא Qal · Participle Active
- מֵ֣ת Qal · Perfect
- וַיִּפֹּ֥ל Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיָּמֹֽת Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- מֵ֣ת to die H4191 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 15 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.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 21 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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.
καί ὁράω ὁ αἴρω ὁ σκεῦος αὐτός ὅτι ἀποθνήσκω σαούλ καί πίπτω καί γέ αὐτός ἐπί ὁ ῥομφαία αὐτός καί ἀποθνήσκω
And his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, and he also fell upon his sword.
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 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kᵉlîy (“vessel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word kᵉlîy carries the sense “vessel.” How does it shape the verse?
- What does the repetition of “to die” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַיַּ֥רְא» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 21 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “to die” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 10:5 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 →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — 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.