אִיתַ֣י בֶּן רִיבַ֗י מִגִּבְעַת֙ בְּנֵ֣י בִנְיָמִ֔ן בְּנָיָ֖ה הַפִּרְעָתֹנִֽי
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 11:31
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 11:31 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
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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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.
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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
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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King James Version Public Domain
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Ithai, the son of Ribai, from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin; Benaiah the Pirathonite;
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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King James Version Public Domain
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Ithai the sonne of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Ethai the son of Ribai of Gabaath of the sons of Benjamin, Banal a Pharathonite,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Ithai son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Ithai son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Ithai son of Ribai of Gibeah of Benjamin's descendants, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Ithai, the son of Ribai, from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin; Benaiah the Pirathonite;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Ithai, son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites; Benaiah the Pirathonite;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Ithai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite;
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רִיבַ֗י
Rîybay
H7380
“Ribai”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Samuel 23:29
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ribai = "pleader with Jehovah"
- father of Ittai the Benjamite of Gibeah
- אִיתַ֣י ʼIttay H863 “Ittai” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- רִיבַ֗י Rîybay H7380 “Ribai” Noun, Proper
- מִגִּבְעַת֙ Gibʻâh H1390 “from · Gibeah” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בִנְיָמִ֔ן Binyâmîyn H1144 “Benjamin” Noun, Proper
- בְּנָיָ֖ה Bᵉnâyâh H1141 “Benaiah” Noun, Proper
- הַפִּרְעָתֹנִֽי Pirʻâthôwnîy H6553 “the · Pirathonite” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is רִיבַ֗י Ribai H7380 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
רִיבַ֗י Ribai H7380 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 8 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בֶּן son H1121 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 9 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
1Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 11:31 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,
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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
αιθι υἱός ριβαι ἐκ βουνός βενιαμίν βαναιας ὁ φαραθωνι
Airi the son of Rebie of the hill of Benjamin, Banaias the Pharathonite,
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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Rîybay (“Ribai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Ribai” (Rîybay) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does 2 Samuel 23:29, which shares the word «Ribai», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 11:31 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 →
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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).