1 Chronicles 12:37

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 12:37 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.
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On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And from across the Jordan, from the Reubenite and the Gadite and half of tribe of Manasseh, with all of the weapons of war battle, 120,000.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh there: 120,000 armed with every kind of weapon of war.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh there: 120,000 armed with every kind of weapon of war.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And on the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred and twenty thousand.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And of the other side of Iorden of the Reubenites, and of the Gadites, and of the halfe tribe of Manasseh with all instruments of warre to fight with, an hundreth and twentie thousand.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And on the other side of the Jordan of the sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half of the tribe of Manasses a hundred and twenty thousand, furnished with arms for war.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And from beyond the Jordan, of the Reubenite, and of the Gadite, and of the half of the tribe of Manasseh, with all instruments of the host for battle, `are' a hundred and twenty thousand.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And from beyond the Jordan, of the Reubenite, and of the Gadite, and of the half of the tribe of Manasseh, with all instruments of the host for battle, [are] one hundred and twenty thousand.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    From the other side of the Jordan, from the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 men armed with all kinds of weapons for battle.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And from across the Jordan, from the Reubenite and the Gadite and half of tribe of Manasseh, with all of the weapons of war battle, 120,000.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And from the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of weapons of war for battle, a hundred and twenty thousand.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle: one hundred twenty thousand.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred and twenty thousand.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    From the east side of the Jordan River, from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 120,000 warriors carrying all kinds of weapons.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    (12-38) And on the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred and twenty thousand.

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וְהַגָּדִ֜י
Gâdîy
H1425
“and · the · Gadite”
Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Particle + Noun
Type
Gentilic
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: patronymically from H1410

TWOT: None

Gadite = "an invader: a troop: fortune" - one of the tribe descended from Gad
  1. וּמֵעֵ֣בֶר ʻêber H5676 “and · from · side” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  2. לַ֠יַּרְדֵּן Yardên H3383 “to/for the · Jordan” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Proper
  3. מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
  4. הָראוּבֵנִ֨י Rᵉʼûwbênîy H7206 “the · Reubenite” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. וַחֲצִ֣י chêtsîy H2677 “and · half of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. שֵׁ֣בֶט shêbeṭ H7626 “staff of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. מְנַשֶּׁ֗ה Mᵉnashsheh H4519 “Manasseh” Noun, Proper
  8. בְּכֹל֙ kôl H3605 “in/at · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. כְּלֵי֙ kᵉlîy H3627 “vessels of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  10. צְבָ֣א tsâbâʼ H6635 “army of” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  11. מִלְחָמָ֔ה milchâmâh H4421 “battle” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  12. מֵאָ֥ה mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  13. וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים ʻesrîym H6242 “and · twenty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  14. אָֽלֶף ʼeleph H505 “thousand” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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15
words
15
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְהַגָּדִ֜י Gadite H1425 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְהַגָּדִ֜י Gadite H1425 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 11 nouns
  • 3 adjectives
  • 1 preposition

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 33 words from the Hebrew and 27 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 10 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

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 12:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 3:12–16 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
  • Joshua 13:7–32 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
  • Joshua 14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
  • Joshua 22:1–10 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
  • 1 Chronicles 5:1–10 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
  • Numbers 32:33–42 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 12:37 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמֵעֵ֣בֶר לַ֠יַּרְדֵּן מִן הָראוּבֵנִ֨י וְהַגָּדִ֜י וַחֲצִ֣י שֵׁ֣בֶט מְנַשֶּׁ֗ה בְּכֹל֙ כְּלֵי֙ צְבָ֣א מִלְחָמָ֔ה מֵאָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָֽלֶף

On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 12:37 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀπό ὁ ασηρ ἐκπορεύομαι βοηθέω εἰς πόλεμος τεσσαράκοντα χιλιάς

And from the country beyond Jordan, from Ruben, and the Gadites, and from the half-tribe of Manasse, one hundred and twenty thousand, with all weapons of war.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:37 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(37) On the other side.—Better, from the other side; that is, from Peræa.

With all manner of instruments of war for the battle.—With all kinds of weapons of war- like service. The large total of 120,000 for the two and a half Eastern tribes is certainly remarkable. But, admitting the possibility of corruption in the ciphers here and elsewhere, the want of other documents, with which the text might be compared, renders further criticism superfluous.

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

37. an hundred and twenty thousand] Evidently a round number, giving 40,000 to each tribe; cp. 1Ch_12:36.

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.

The Pulpit Commentary

The east of Jordan group muster a high number, and of well-equipped men.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gâdîy (“Gadite”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Gâdîy carries the sense “Gadite.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Numbers 34:14 shares the word «Gadite» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  4. Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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