וְצָד֥וֹק נַ֖עַר גִּבּ֣וֹר חָ֑יִל וּבֵית אָבִ֥יו שָׂרִ֖ים עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 12:28
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 12:28 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
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.
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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
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Zadok, a young man, a warrior of valor, and the house of his father, 22 commanders.
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
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and Zadok, a mighty young man of valor, with 22 commanders from his own family.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and Zadok, a mighty young man of valor, with 22 commanders from his own family.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father’s house twenty and two captains.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Zadok a yong man very valiant, and of his fathers housholde came two and twentie captaines.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Sadoc also a young man of excellent disposition, and the house of his father, twenty-two principal men.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Zadok, a young man, mighty of valour, and of the house of his father `are' twenty and two heads.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Zadok, a young man, a mighty man of valor, and of the house of his father [are] twenty-two heads.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
With Zadok, a young, strong, and courageous man, were twenty-two leaders from his father's family.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Zadok, a young man, a warrior of valor, and the house of his father, 22 commanders.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Zadok, a valiant young man, and his father's house two and twenty chief men.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father’s house twenty-two captains.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Zadok, a strong young warrior, with 22 members of his family, all officers.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(12-29) and Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
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וְצָד֥וֹק
Tsâdôwq
H6659
“and · Zadok”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 53× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Samuel 8:17
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Zadok = "righteous"
- the high priest, son of Ahitub of the house of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and 11th in descent from Aaron; joined David after Saul's death and supported him against Absalom and Adonijah; anointed Solomon as king
- a priest, son of Meraioth, father of Meshullam of the house of Ahitub; apparently a nephew of 1
- father of Jerusha, the wife of king Uzziah and mother of king Jotham of Judah
- son of Baana and repairer of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
- son of Immer and repairer of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
- a leader of the people in the time of Nehemiah
- a scribe appointed by Nehemiah as one of the treasurers over the storehouse
- a valiant warrior of the tribe of Benjamin who joined David at Hebron. Same as 1?
- וְצָד֥וֹק Tsâdôwq H6659 “and · Zadok” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- נַ֖עַר naʻar H5288 “boy” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- גִּבּ֣וֹר gibbôwr H1368 “mighty of” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- חָ֑יִל chayil H2428 “strength” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וּבֵית bayith H1004 “and · house of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אָבִ֥יו ʼâb H1 “father · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שָׂרִ֖ים sar H8269 “princes” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- עֶשְׂרִ֥ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וּשְׁנָֽיִם shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, 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
וְצָד֥וֹק Zadok H6659 occurs in 50 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
- 3 adjectives
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 13 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 12:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 8:17 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;
- 1 Chronicles 6:8 and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz,
- 1 Chronicles 6:53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
- 1 Kings 1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
- 1 Kings 2:35 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
- Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:
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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.
καί ιωαδαε ὁ ἡγέομαι ὁ ἀαρών καί μετά αὐτός τρεῖς χιλιάς καί ἑπτακόσιοι
And Sadoc, a young man mighty in strength, and there were twenty-two leaders of his father's house.
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
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Tsâdôwq (“Zadok”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Zadok” (Tsâdôwq) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 2 Samuel 8:17 shares the word «Zadok» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- 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 9 Hebrew ↔ 13 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 12:28 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.
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.
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.