1 Chronicles 11:30

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

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Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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חֵ֥לֶד

chêled

H2466

“Heled”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H2465

TWOT: None

Heled = "transient"

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
5: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

חֵ֥לֶד Heled H2466

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

חֵ֥לֶד Heled H2466

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מַהְרַי֙ Maharai H4121 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Repetition

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

הַנְּטֹ֣פָתִ֔י Netophathite H5200 ×2

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 11:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Samuel 23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
1 Chronicles 27:13 The tenth [captain] for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his division were Twenty-four thousand.
1 Chronicles 27:15 The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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 11:30 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מַהְרַי֙ הַנְּטֹ֣פָתִ֔י חֵ֥לֶד בֶּֽן בַּֽעֲנָ֖ה הַנְּטוֹפָתִֽי

Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 11:30 Septuagint · lemma form

μοοραι ὁ νετωφαθι χολοδ υἱός νοοζα ὁ νετωφαθι

Marai the Netophathite, Chthaod the son of Nooza the Netophathite,

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 11:30 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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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Maharai--chief of the detachment of the guards who attended on the king in the tenth month, January (Ch1 27:13; Sa2 23:28).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(30) Maharai the Netophathite, of Netophah, a Levitical canton (1Ch_9:16). By family Maharai was a Zarhite (1Ch_27:13).

Heled.—More correct than (Heleb) Samuel. Called Heldai (1Ch_27:15). He was of the clan Othniel.

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

30. Maharai the Netophathite] So in 1Ch_27:13, with “of the Zerahites” (R.V.) added. A Netophathite might come either from Netophah (a village in Judah not far from Beth-lehem), or from the “villages of the Netophathites” (1Ch_9:16, note).

Heled] In 1Ch_27:15 “Heldai,” a name found in Zec_6:10. “Heleb” in 2Sa_23:29 is probably a wrong reading.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Maharai, the tenth captain, chap. xxvii. Heled was the twelfth.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Connecting Statement:

This continues the list of David's thirty most important warriors. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

Benjamin

descend

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Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chêled (“Heled”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Heled” (chêled) shape what this verse is saying?
This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
The word “Heled” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
2 Samuel 23:28 shares the word «Maharai» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“Netophathite” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
Reading how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
“Netophathite” occurs 2× in this single verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.