וּמֵאָשֵׁ֗ר יוֹצְאֵ֥י צָבָ֛א לַעֲרֹ֥ךְ מִלְחָמָ֖ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים אָֽלֶף
Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 12:36
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 12:36 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 Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, forty 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 Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from Asher, goers out of war to array battle, 40,000.
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
Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
From Asher: 40,000 fit for service, prepared for battle.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
From Asher: 40,000 fit for service, prepared for battle.
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King James Version Public Domain
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And of Asher that went out to the battell and were trained in the warres, fourtie thousand.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And of Aser forty thousand going forth to fight, and challenging in battle.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And of Asher, going forth to the host, to arrange battle, `are' forty thousand.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And of Asher, going forth to the host, to arrange battle, [are] forty thousand.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From Asher there were forty thousand men prepared for battle.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And from Asher, goers out of war to array battle, 40,000.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And of Asher such as went forth in the host, to set themselves in battle array, forty thousand.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array: forty thousand.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the tribe of Asher, 40,000 experienced warriors, all battle-ready.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And of Asher, forty thousand who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(12-37) And of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
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וּמֵאָשֵׁ֗ר
ʼÂshêr
H836
“and · from · Asher”
Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Proper
- Appears 43× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 30:13
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Asher = "happy"
- son of Jacob and Zilpah
- the tribe descended from Asher
- a city east of Shechem in Manasseh
- וּמֵאָשֵׁ֗ר ʼÂshêr H836 “and · from · Asher” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Proper
- יוֹצְאֵ֥י yâtsâʼ H3318 “going out” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- צָבָ֛א tsâbâʼ H6635 “army” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- לַעֲרֹ֥ךְ ʻârak H6186 “to arrange” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- מִלְחָמָ֖ה milchâmâh H4421 “battle” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- אַרְבָּעִ֥ים ʼarbâʻîym H705 “forty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, 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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּמֵאָשֵׁ֗ר Asher H836 occurs in 41 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Verb forms
- יוֹצְאֵ֥י Qal · Participle Active
- לַעֲרֹ֥ךְ Qal · Infinitive Construct
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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 12 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
2Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 12:36 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 12:33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, and were] not of double heart.
- Joel 2:7 They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 14 words vs World English Bible 21. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ἀπό ὁ δανιτῶν παρατάσσω εἰς πόλεμος εἴκοσι ὀκτώ χιλιάς καί ὀκτακόσιοι
And of Aser, they that went out to give aid in war, forty 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
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 ʼÂshêr (“Asher”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼÂshêr carries the sense “Asher.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Genesis 30:13, which shares the word «Asher», read alongside this verse?
- The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «יוֹצְאֵ֥י» is a Qal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 17 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:36 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 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.
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.