1 Chronicles 11:44

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

4 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
4 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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עֻזִיָּ֖א

ʻUzzîyâʼ

H5814

“Uzzia”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: perhaps for H5818

TWOT: None

Uzzia = "strength of Jehovah" - 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 →

8: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

4 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

עֻזִיָּ֖א Uzzia H5814
הָעֲשְׁתְּרָתִ֑י Ashterathite H6254
שָׁמָע֙ Shama H8091
הָעֲרֹעֵרִֽי Aroerite H6200

First appearance in Scripture

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

עֻזִיָּ֖א Uzzia H5814
הָעֲשְׁתְּרָתִ֑י Ashterathite H6254
שָׁמָע֙ Shama H8091
הָעֲרֹעֵרִֽי Aroerite H6200

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חוֹתָ֥ם Hotham H2369 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

1 Chronicles 7:32

Grammatical profile

8 nouns

Repetition

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

ויעואל Jeiel H3273 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 11 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 10 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

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

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 11:44 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

עֻזִיָּ֖א הָעֲשְׁתְּרָתִ֑י שָׁמָע֙ ויעואל וִֽיעִיאֵ֔ל בְּנֵ֖י חוֹתָ֥ם הָעֲרֹעֵרִֽי

Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 11:44 Septuagint · lemma form

οζια ὁ ασταρωθι σαμμα καί ιιηλ υἱός χωθαν ὁ αραρι

Ozia the Astarothite, Samatha and Jeiel sons of Chotham the Ararite,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 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 11:44 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ch 11:44. The Aroerite — So called possibly because his station and quarters were upon the river Aroer, beyond Jordan, being placed there for the defence of those parts.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(44) Ashterathite.—Of Ashtaroth, a town in Bashan (1Ch_6:71).

Jehiel.—Heb., Jeuel. Margin, “Jeiel.”

Hothan.—A misprint of the Authorised Version for Aotham. There was an Aroer in Reuben, and another in Gad (Jos_13:16; Jos_13:25).

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

44. the Ashterathite] i.e. inhabitant of Ashtaroth (1Ch_6:71 [56 Heb.]), a city of Manasseh east of Jordan.

and Jehiel the sons of Hothan] R.V. and Jeiel the sons of Hotham.

the Aroerite] i.e. inhabitant of Aroer. There were two cities of this name, both east of Jordan; cp. Jos_13:16; Jos_13:25.

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

Jehiel. The Masorets read so in the margin; but in the text they substitute u for i, improperly. See Septuagint and chap. v. 7, 8.

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).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

The Aroerite; so called possibly because his station and quarters were upon the river Aroer beyond Jordan, being placed there for the defence of those parts.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The Ashterathite. Ashteroth was in East Manasseh. (1Ch_6:71) The Aroerite. Aroer lay east of the Jordan. (Jos_13:16, Jos_13:25)

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 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻUzzîyâʼ (“Uzzia”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Uzzia” (ʻUzzîyâʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
4 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
4 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does 1 Chronicles 7:32, which shares the word «Hotham», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “Jeiel” (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 Joseph Benson's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

4 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
4 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“Jeiel” occurs 2× in this single verse.