וַיִּקַּ֨ח דָּוִ֥יד ע֛וֹד נָשִׁ֖ים בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַיּ֧וֹלֶד דָּוִ֛יד ע֖וֹד בָּנִ֥ים וּבָנֽוֹת
David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 14:3
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 14:3 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
David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
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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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
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King James Version Public Domain
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.
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
David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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King James Version Public Domain
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begat more sons and daughters.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Also Dauid tooke moe wiues at Ierusalem, and Dauid begate moe sonnes and daughters.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And David took other wives in Jerusalem: and he beget sons, and daughters.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And David taketh again wives in Jerusalem, and David begetteth again sons and daughters;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And David takes wives again in Jerusalem, and David begets sons and daughters again;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
In Jerusalem, David took more wives, and he became the father of more sons and daughters.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begot more sons and daughters.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
David married more wives in Jerusalem, and had more sons and daughters.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begot more sons and daughters.
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ע֛וֹד
ʻôwd
H5750
“still”
Adverb
- Appears 488× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 4:25
- Part of Speech
- Adverb
Full BDB Definition
a going round, continuance (substantive)
- still, yet, again, besides (adverb)
- still, yet (of continuance or persistence)
- still, yet, more (of addition or repetition)
- again
- still, moreover, besides
- וַיִּקַּ֨ח lâqach H3947 “and · to take” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- דָּוִ֥יד Dâvid H1732 “David” Noun, Proper
- ע֛וֹד ʻôwd H5750 “still” Adverb
- נָשִׁ֖ים ʼishshâh H802 “women” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם Yᵉrûwshâlaim H3389 “in/at · Jerusalem” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- וַיּ֧וֹלֶד yâlad H3205 “and · to bear” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- דָּוִ֛יד Dâvid H1732 “David” Noun, Proper
- ע֖וֹד ʻôwd H5750 “still” Adverb
- בָּנִ֥ים bên H1121 “sons” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- וּבָנֽוֹת bath H1323 “and · daughters” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, 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 →
- 10
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 6 nouns
- 2 adverbs
Verb forms
- וַיִּקַּ֨ח Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיּ֧וֹלֶד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 14 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
10Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 14:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
- 2 Samuel 5:13 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
- 1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
- 1 Chronicles 3:1–4 Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;
- Proverbs 5:18–19 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26–29 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
- Malachi 2:14 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
- Matthew 19:4–5 He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
- Matthew 19:8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί λαμβάνω δαυίδ ἔτι γυνή ἐν ἰερουσαλήμ καί τίκτω δαυίδ ἔτι υἱός καί θυγάτηρ
And David took more wives in Jerusalem: and there were born to David more sons and daughters.
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 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻôwd (“still”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “still” (ʻôwd) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Deuteronomy 17:17, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “David” (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?
- «וַיִּקַּ֨ח» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “David” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 14:3 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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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
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.