1 Chronicles 11:35

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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אֱלִיפַ֥ל

ʼĔlîyphâl

H465

“Eliphal”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H410 and H6419

TWOT: None

Eliphal = "my God is supplication" - 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 →

7: words
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

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

אֱלִיפַ֥ל Eliphal H465

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

שָׂכָ֛ר Sacar H7940
אֱלִיפַ֥ל Eliphal H465

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲחִיאָ֧ם Ahiam H279 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

2 Samuel 23:33

Grammatical profile

7 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 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 7 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 11:35 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 23:33–34 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,

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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 11:35 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֲחִיאָ֧ם בֶּן שָׂכָ֛ר הַהֲרָרִ֖י אֱלִיפַ֥ל בֶּן אֽוּר

Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 11:35 Septuagint · lemma form

αχιμ υἱός σαχαρ ὁ αραρι ελφαλ υἱός ουρ

Achim the son of Achar the Ararite, Elphat the son of Thyrophar

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 11:35 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(35) Sacar (wages) is probably right, not “Sharar” (Samuel). LXX. Vat. has “Achar,” but Alex. “Sachar.” Syriac, “Sacham.”

Instead of Hararite, Samuel has “Ararite,” or “Adrite” (Syr.).

Eliphal, the son of Ur.—Instead of this, Samuel reads, “Eliphelet son of Ahasbai son of the Maachathite.” Eliphelet (the name of a son of David) seems right.

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

35. Sacar] In 2 Sam. “Sharar.”

35, 36. Eliphal the son of Ur, Hepher the Mecherathite] In 2Sa_23:34 “Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite.” Chron. has two heroes against one in 2 Sam.

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

Eliphal should be Eliphelet, the son of Aasgai, the son of Machati, (Haydock) or of the country of Maacha, 4 Kings xxv. 23. (Kennicott) --- Eliphal and Hepher cannot constitute two heroes, as that would derange the number 37, 2 Kings xxiii. 39. The copies of the Septuagint vary much. (Haydock)

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).

The Pulpit Commentary

Sacar Eliphal Ur. For these three names the parallel shows Sharar, Eliphelet, and Ahasbai respectively.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĔlîyphâl (“Eliphal”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼĔlîyphâl carries the sense “Eliphal.” How does it shape the verse?
1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does 2 Samuel 23:33, which shares the word «Ahiam», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (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?
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

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.