1 Chronicles 12:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
4 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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אֶלְעוּזַ֤י

ʼElʻûwzay

H498

“Eluzai”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H410 and H5756 (in the sense of H5797 )

TWOT: None

Eluzai = "God is my strength" - a Benjamite warrior who joined David

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
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

אֶלְעוּזַ֤י Eluzai H498
וּבְעַלְיָ֣ה Bealiah H1183

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

אֶלְעוּזַ֤י Eluzai H498
וּבְעַלְיָ֣ה Bealiah H1183
וּשְׁמַרְיָ֔הוּ Shemariah H8114
החריפי Haruphite H2741

Grammatical profile

7 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

החריפי Haruphite H2741 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 9 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.

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.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 12:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֶלְעוּזַ֤י וִירִימוֹת֙ וּבְעַלְיָ֣ה וּשְׁמַרְיָ֔הוּ וּשְׁפַטְיָ֖הוּ החריפי הַחֲרוּפִֽי

Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 12:5 Septuagint · lemma form

ιερμιας καί ιεζιηλ καί ιωαναν καί ιωζαβαδ ὁ γαδαραθι

Azai and Arimuth, and Baalia, and Samaraia, and Saphatias of Charaephiel,

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 12:5 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

(5) Jerimoth.—A Benjamite name (1Ch_7:7-8).

Bealiah.—Baal is Jah. (Comp. Note on 1Ch_8:33.) Such names indicate that “Baal” was once a title of the God of Israel.

The Haruphite.—Neh_7:24 mentions the “sons of Hariph” just before the “sons of Gibeon.” The Hebrew margin here is “Hariphite.”

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite. A native of Haruph or Hariph, see Neh 7:24.

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1 Chronicles 12:6

ch1 12:6

ch1 12:6

ch1 12:6Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites. Not Korahites, descendants of Levi, Ch1 9:19, but the posterity of Korah a Benjaminite.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

Jerimoth. This name is found also among Benjamites. (1Ch_7:8) Bealiah. This name comprises both the word Baal, and Jah! Haruphite. The Masoretic word is ypyrij. (Neh_7:34)

The sons of Hariph (Neh_7:24) may have belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.

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

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite. A native of Haruph or Hariph, see Neh 7:24.

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1 Chronicles 12:6

ch1 12:6

ch1 12:6

ch1 12:6Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites. Not Korahites, descendants of Levi, Ch1 9:19, but the posterity of Korah a Benjaminite.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Connecting Statement:

This continues the list of the men from the tribe of Benjamin who joined David at Ziklag. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

Korah

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼElʻûwzay (“Eluzai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Eluzai” (ʼElʻûwzay) contribute to the verse as a whole?
2 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
4 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
What does the repetition of “Haruphite” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
4 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
“Haruphite” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.