מִן בְּנֵ֣י שִׁמְע֗וֹן גִּבּ֤וֹרֵי חַ֨יִל֙ לַצָּבָ֔א שִׁבְעַ֥ת אֲלָפִ֖ים וּמֵאָֽה
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 12:25
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 12:25 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
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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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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World English Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Simeon, warriors of valor for war, 7,100.
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
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
From Simeon: 7,100 mighty men of valor, ready for battle.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
From Simeon: 7,100 mighty men of valor, ready for battle.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon valiant men of warre, seuen thousand and an hundreth.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the sons of Simeon valiant men for war, seven thousand one hundred.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Of the sons of Simeon, mighty ones of valour for the host, `are' seven thousand and a hundred.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the sons of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the host, [are] seven thousand and one hundred.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the Simeonites there were 7,100 fighting men.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Simeon, warriors of valor for war, 7,100.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for war, seven thousand one hundred.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war: seven thousand one hundred.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of Simeon, 7,100 strong warriors.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(12-26) Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
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שִׁמְע֗וֹן
Shimʻôwn
H8095
“Simeon”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 44× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 29:33
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Simeon or Shimeon = "heard"
- the 2nd son of Jacob by his wife Leah and progenitor of the tribe of Simeon
- an Israelite of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- שִׁמְע֗וֹן Shimʻôwn H8095 “Simeon” Noun, Proper
- גִּבּ֤וֹרֵי gibbôwr H1368 “mighty of” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- חַ֨יִל֙ chayil H2428 “strength” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לַצָּבָ֔א tsâbâʼ H6635 “to/for the · army” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- שִׁבְעַ֥ת shebaʻ H7651 “seven” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֲלָפִ֖ים ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּמֵאָֽה mêʼâh H3967 “and · hundred” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, 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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שִׁמְע֗וֹן Simeon H8095 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 nouns
- 4 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 11 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.
υἱός ἰουδά θυρεοφόρος καί δορατοφόρος ἕξ χιλιάς καί ὀκτακόσιοι δυνατός παράταξις
Of the sons of Symeon mighty for battle, seven thousand and one hundred.
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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shimʻôwn (“Simeon”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Simeon” (Shimʻôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Genesis 29:33, which shares the word «Simeon», read alongside 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
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:25 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.
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.