Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
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Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
And from the half of the tribe of Manasseh, 18,000 who were designated by names to come to make David king.
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Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
From the half-tribe of Manasseh: 18,000 designated by name to come and make David king.
From the half-tribe of Manasseh: 18,000 designated by name to come and make David king.
And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
And of the halfe tribe of Manasseh eighteene thousand, which were appointed by name to come and make Dauid King.
And of the half tribe of Manasses, eighteen thousand, every one by their names, came to make David king.
And of the half of the tribe of Manasseh `are' eighteen thousand, who have been defined by name, to come in to cause David to reign.
And of the half of the tribe of Manasseh [are] eighteen thousand, who have been defined by name, to come to cause David to reign.
From the half tribe of Manasseh there were eighteen thousand famous men who came to make David king.
And from the half of the tribe of Manasseh, 18,000 who were designated by names to come to make David king.
And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
Of the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
From the half-tribe of Manasseh, 18,000 men were designated by name to come and make David king.
And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, listed by name, came to make David king.
(12-32) And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נִקְּבוּ֙ to pierce H5344 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נִקְּבוּ֙ to pierce H5344 occurs in 23 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 16 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.
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וּמֵחֲצִי֙ מַטֵּ֣ה מְנַשֶּׁ֔ה שְׁמוֹנָ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר אָ֑לֶף אֲשֶׁ֤ר נִקְּבוּ֙ בְּשֵׁמ֔וֹת לָב֖וֹא לְהַמְלִ֥יךְ אֶת דָּוִֽיד
Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀπό υἱός ἐφράιμ εἴκοσι χιλιάς καί ὀκτακόσιοι δυνατός ἰσχύς ἀνήρ ὀνομαστός κατά οἶκος πατριά αὐτός
And of the half-tribe of Manasse, eighteen thousand, even those who were named by name, to make David king.
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 13 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nâqab (“to pierce”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:31 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.
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.
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.