1 Chronicles 11:47

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

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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הַמְּצֹבָיָֽה

Mᵉtsôbâyâh

H4677

“the · Mesobaite”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: apparently from H4672 and H3050

TWOT: None

Mesobaite = "the one set up of JAH" - of Jaasiel, one of David's mighty warriors - form unsuitable for adjective

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 →

4: words
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

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

הַמְּצֹבָיָֽה Mesobaite H4677

First appearance in Scripture

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

וְיַעֲשִׂיאֵ֖ל Jasiel H3300
הַמְּצֹבָיָֽה Mesobaite H4677

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְיַעֲשִׂיאֵ֖ל Jasiel H3300 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

1 Chronicles 27:21

Grammatical profile

4 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 7 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 4 Hebrew tokens and 7 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

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 11:47 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֱלִיאֵ֣ל וְעוֹבֵ֔ד וְיַעֲשִׂיאֵ֖ל הַמְּצֹבָיָֽה

Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 11:47 Septuagint · lemma form

αλιηλ καί ωβηδ καί ιεσιηλ ὁ μισαβια

Daliel, and Obeth, and Jessiel of Mesobia.

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 11:47 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

(47) Eliel.-LXX., “Daliel.”

The Mesobaite.—The word is corrupt. Perhaps it should be “of Zobah.” Syriac has and Ashkir.

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

47. the Mesobaite] R.V. the Mezobaite. Read perhaps, “of Zobah”; cp. 1Ch_11:38, note.

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.

The Pulpit Commentary

The Mesobaite. This name is entirely unknown, unless it may be the same as Mezobah.

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 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉtsôbâyâh (“Mesobaite”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Mesobaite” (Mᵉtsôbâyâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
1 Chronicles 27:21 shares the word «Jasiel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
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?
Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 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.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 4 Hebrew ↔ 7 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.