וִיהוֹיָדָ֖ע הַנָּגִ֣יד לְאַהֲרֹ֑ן וְעִמּ֕וֹ שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֖ים וּשְׁבַ֥ע מֵאֽוֹת
Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 12:27
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 12:27 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
Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven 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
Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Jehoiada, the leader from Aaron, and with him 3,700.
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
Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
including Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
including Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Jehoiada was the leader of `the house of' Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Jehoiada was the leader of the house of Aaron, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Iehoiada was the chiefe of them of Aaron: and with him three thousande and seuen hundreth.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Joiada prince of the race of Aaron, and with him three thousand seven hundred.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Jehoiada `is' the leader of the Aaronite, and with him `are' three thousand and seven hundred,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Jehoiada [is] the leader of the Aaronite, and with him [are] three thousand and seven hundred,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Jehoiada was the leader of Aaron's descendants, and with him were 3,700.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Jehoiada, the leader from Aaron, and with him 3,700.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Jehoiada the prince of Aaron, and with him were three thousand seven hundred;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Jehoiada was the leader of the household of Aaron; and with him were three thousand seven hundred,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
including Jehoiada, leader of the family of Aaron, and with him 3,700,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Jehoiada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand, seven hundred men;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(12-28) And Jehoiada was the leader of the house of Aaron, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;
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הַנָּגִ֣יד
nâgîyd
H5057
“the · ruler”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 44× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Samuel 9:16
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
leader, ruler, captain, prince
- ruler, prince
- prince-overseer
- ruler (in other capacities)
- princely things
- וִיהוֹיָדָ֖ע Yᵉhôwyâdâʻ H3077 “and · Jehoiada” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הַנָּגִ֣יד nâgîyd H5057 “the · ruler” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לְאַהֲרֹ֑ן ʼAhărôwn H175 “to/for · Aaron” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- וְעִמּ֕וֹ ʻim H5973 “and · with · him” Conjunction + Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֲלָפִ֖ים ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁבַ֥ע shebaʻ H7651 “and · seven” 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 →
- 8
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַנָּגִ֣יד ruler H5057 occurs in 44 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 4 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 5 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.
Cross-references
6Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 12:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 27:17 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok:
- 2 Kings 11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and shown them the king's son.
- 2 Kings 11:9 The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
- 2 Kings 25:18 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
- 1 Chronicles 6:49–57 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
- 1 Chronicles 9:20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, [and] Yahweh was with him.
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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 λευί τετρακισχίλιοι ἑξακόσιοι
And Joadas the chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand and seven 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 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâgîyd (“ruler”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word nâgîyd carries the sense “ruler.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 1 Samuel 9:16, which shares the word «ruler», read alongside 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 Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 5 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:27 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 →
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — 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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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
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.