וּמִנַּפְתָּלִ֖י שָׂרִ֣ים אָ֑לֶף וְעִמָּהֶם֙ בְּצִנָּ֣ה וַחֲנִ֔ית שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וְשִׁבְעָ֖ה אָֽלֶף
Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 12:34
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 12:34 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 Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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 Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from Naphtali, 1,000 commanders, and with them, with shield and spear, 37,000.
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 Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
From Naphtali: 1,000 commanders, accompanied by 37,000 men with shield and spear.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
From Naphtali: 1,000 commanders, accompanied by 37,000 men with shield and spear.
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And of Naphtali a thousand captaines, and with them with shielde and speare seuen and thirtie thousande.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And of Nephtali, a thousand leaders: and with them seven and thirty thousand, furnished with shield and spear.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And of Naphtali, a thousand heads, and with them, with target and spear, `are' thirty and seven thousand.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And of Naphtali, one thousand heads, and with them, with buckler and spear, [are] thirty-seven thousand.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From Naphtali there were one thousand officers, and with them thirty-seven thousand men with shields and spears.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from Naphtali, 1,000 commanders, and with them, with shield and spear, 37,000.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them thirty-seven thousand with shield and spear.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of Naphtali: one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of Naphtali, 1,000 officers and 37,000 warriors carrying shields and spears.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And of Naphtali, a thousand captains with thirty-seven thousand spearmen.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(12-35) And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
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בְּצִנָּ֣ה
tsinnâh
H6793
“in/at · shield”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 22× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Samuel 17:7
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
something piercing, hook, barb
- meaning dubious
- coolness, cold (of snow)
- shield, large shield, buckler
- shield
- וּמִנַּפְתָּלִ֖י Naphtâlîy H5321 “and · from · Naphtali” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Proper
- שָׂרִ֣ים sar H8269 “princes” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- אָ֑לֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
- וְעִמָּהֶם֙ ʻim H5973 “and · with · them” Conjunction + Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- בְּצִנָּ֣ה tsinnâh H6793 “in/at · shield” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וַחֲנִ֔ית chănîyth H2595 “and · spear” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים shᵉlôwshîym H7970 “thirty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- וְשִׁבְעָ֖ה shebaʻ H7651 “and · seven” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- אָֽלֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” 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
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is בְּצִנָּ֣ה shield H6793 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בְּצִנָּ֣ה shield H6793 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 nouns
- 4 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אָ֑לֶף thousand H505 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 16 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.
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 ἀπό ζαβουλων ἐκπορεύομαι εἰς παράταξις πόλεμος ἐν πᾶς σκεῦος πολεμικός πεντήκοντα χιλιάς βοηθέω ὁ δαυίδ οὐ ἑτεροκλινῶς
And of Nephthali a thousand captains, and with them men with shields and spears, thirty-seven thousand.
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 (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tsinnâh (“shield”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “shield” (tsinnâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does 1 Samuel 17:7, which shares the word «shield», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “thousand” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “thousand” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:34 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 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.
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.
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.