1 Chronicles 12:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

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עֵ֖זֶר

ʻÊzer

H5829

“Ezer”

Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 4:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H5828

TWOT: None

Ezer = "treasure" - father of Hushah of the sons of Hur - a Gadite chief who fought with David - a Levite who aided in repairing the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

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 →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עֵ֖זֶר Ezer H5829 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עֵ֖זֶר Ezer H5829 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 nouns
2 adjectives

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 9 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 12:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

עֵ֖זֶר הָרֹ֑אשׁ עֹבַדְיָה֙ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י אֱלִיאָ֖ב הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁי

Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 12:9 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀπό ὁ γαδδι χωρίζω πρός δαυίδ ἀπό ὁ ἔρημος ἰσχυρός δυνατός ἀνήρ παράταξις πόλεμος αἴρω θυρεός καί δόρυ καί πρόσωπον λέων πρόσωπον αὐτός καί κοῦφος ὡς δορκάς ἐπί ὁ ὄρος ὁ ταχύς

Aza the chief, Abdia the second, Eliab the third,

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 12:9 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

(9) The first.—The chief 1Ch_12:3 (har’osh).

(9-13) Eleven heroes of Gad.

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

And there came of the men of Benjamin, and of Judah,.... Besides those before mentioned, Ch1 12:2,

to the hold unto David; the same as in Ch1 12:8.

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

Vers. 9-13. The eleven names of these verses are all known elsewhere, but none of them as designating the same persons.

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

And there came of the men of Benjamin, and of Judah,.... Besides those before mentioned, Ch1 12:2,

to the hold unto David; the same as in Ch1 12:8.

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 Gad who joined David. (See: How to Translate Names)

There were Ezer the leader, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third ... fourth ... fifth ... sixth ... seventh ... eighth ... ninth ... tenth ... eleventh

This is a list of the leaders of the army in order of their importance. (See: Ordinal Numbers)

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)

to the stronghold of the desert to the strongholds of the desert where he hid from Saul, as it is written (I Sam. 23:24): “And they arose and went to Ziph before Saul, and David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the plain,” and it is written (ibid. 24:1): “And David went up from there, and he stayed in the strongholds of En-Gedi.”

and whose faces were [like] the faces of lions Their faces were frightful like lions.

and as swift as gazelles on the mountains They were swift in their running, for it is customary for gazelles to run on the mountains when people hunt them.

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.

Lesson kit

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

Discussion questions

The word ʻÊzer carries the sense “Ezer.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Chronicles 4:4, which shares the word «Ezer», read alongside this verse?
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?
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

These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.