The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
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The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
The sons of Judah, carriers of the shield and the spear, 6,800 equipped of war.
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The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.
From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears.
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
The children of Iudah that bare shield and speare, were sixe thousand and eight hundreth armed to the warre.
The sons of Juda bearing shield and spear, six thousand eight hundred well appointed to war.
The sons of Judah, bearing target and spear, `are' six thousand and eight hundred, armed ones of the host.
The sons of Judah, carrying buckler and spear, [are] six thousand and eight hundred, armed ones of the host.
From Judah those who carried shield and spear were 6,800, armed for war.
The sons of Judah, carriers of the shield and the spear, 6,800 equipped of war.
The children of Judah that bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, equipped for military service.
The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand eight hundred, armed for war.
The children of Judah that bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed for war.
From the tribe of Judah, 6,800 warriors carrying shields and spears.
There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;
(12-25) The children of Judah that bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וָרֹ֑מַח spear H7420 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וָרֹ֑מַח spear H7420 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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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.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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בְּנֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֔ה נֹשְׂאֵ֥י צִנָּ֖ה וָרֹ֑מַח שֵׁ֧שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֛ים וּשְׁמוֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת חֲלוּצֵ֥י צָבָֽא
The children of Judah who bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, armed for war.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί οὗτος ὁ ὄνομα ὁ ἄρχων ὁ στρατιά ὁ ἔρχομαι πρός δαυίδ εἰς χεβρων ὁ ἀποστρέφω ὁ βασιλεία σαούλ πρός αὐτός κατά ὁ λόγος κύριος
The sons of Juda, bearing shields and spears, six thousand and eight hundred mighty in war.
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 →
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is rômach (“spear”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:24 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.