מִן בְּנֵי֙ הַלֵּוִ֔י אַרְבַּ֥עַת אֲלָפִ֖ים וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 12:26
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 12:26 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 Levi four thousand and six 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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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Levi, 4,600.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
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 Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
From Levi: 4,600,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
From Levi: 4,600,
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of the children of Leui foure thousande and sixe hundreth.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the sons of Levi, four thousand six hundred.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Of the sons of Levi `are' four thousand and six hundred;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the sons of Levi [are] four thousand and six hundred;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the Levites there were 4,600 fighting men.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
From the sons of Levi, 4,600.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Levi four thousand six hundred.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Levi: four thousand six hundred.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of Levi, 4,600,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(12-27) Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
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הַלֵּוִ֔י
Lêvîy
H3878
“the · Levi”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
- Appears 64× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 29:34
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Levi = "joined to"
- the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah and progenitor of tribe of Levites
- מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
- בְּנֵי֙ bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- הַלֵּוִ֔י Lêvîy H3878 “the · Levi” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
- אַרְבַּ֥עַת ʼarbaʻ H702 “four” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֲלָפִ֖ים ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וְשֵׁ֥שׁ shêsh H8337 “and · six” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- מֵאֽוֹת mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, 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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 nouns
- 4 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 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.
ὁ υἱός συμεων δυνατός ἰσχύς εἰς παράταξις ἑπτά χιλιάς καί ἑκατόν
Of the sons of Levi, four thousand and six 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 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Lêvîy (“Levi”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Levi” (Lêvîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 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 Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:26 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 →
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.
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.
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.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.