1 Chronicles 11:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

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עִקֵּשׁ֙

ʻIqqêsh

H6142

“Ikkesh”

Noun, Proper

Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 2 Samuel 23:26

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H6141

TWOT: None

Ikkesh = "twisted" - father of Ira, the Tekoite, and one of David's mighty warriors

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
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עִקֵּשׁ֙ Ikkesh H6142 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עִקֵּשׁ֙ Ikkesh H6142 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 10 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 6 Hebrew tokens and 8 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 11:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Chronicles 27:12 The ninth [captain] for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
2 Samuel 23:27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
1 Chronicles 27:9 The sixth [captain] for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

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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.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 11:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

עִירָ֤א בֶן עִקֵּשׁ֙ הַתְּקוֹעִ֔י אֲבִיעֶ֖זֶר הָעֲנְּתוֹתִֽי

Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 11:28 Septuagint · lemma form

ωραι υἱός εκκης ὁ θεκωι αβιεζερ ὁ αναθωθι

Ora the son of Ekkis the Thecoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

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 11:28 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_11:28

And he slew an Egyptian.

The spiritual slaughter

We too are called upon to slay, to destroy and to overthrow. Are we anxious to slay a lion?

1. There is a lion to be fought by every man--Satan (1Pe_5:8). We are called upon to fight against--

2. Self-indulgence.

3. Worldly fashion.

4. Worldly ambition.

Truly there is battle enough now to be done. Whosoever will set himself against the customs of his time, the popular policies of the circle in which he moves, the prejudices of the persons whose friendship he values, will find that he must have a sword in his right hand, and that even whilst he sleeps he must have his armour so near that at a moments notice he can be once more in the fray. (J. Parker, D. D.)

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(28) Ira . . . Tekoite, of Tekoa, in Judah. Abi-ezer, of Anathoth, in Benjamin. (Comp. 1Ch_27:9; 1Ch_27:19.)

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

28. Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite] Cp. 1Ch_27:9. For Tekoa see 2Ch_20:20, note.

Abi-ezer the Antothite] R.V. Abi-ezer the Anathothite; 1Ch_27:12 and 2Sa_23:27. Anathoth was in Benjamin; it was Jeremiah’s village (Jer_1:1; Jer_11:21 ff.), now Anâta, 2½ miles N.N.E. of Jerusalem.

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.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻIqqêsh (“Ikkesh”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Ikkesh” (ʻIqqêsh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does 2 Samuel 23:26, which shares the word «Ikkesh», read alongside 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 Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.