לִבְנֵ֖י מְרָרִ֑י עֲשָׂיָ֣ה הַשָּׂ֔ר וְאֶחָ֖יו מָאתַ֥יִם וְעֶשְׂרִֽים
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 15:6
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 15:6 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 the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
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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
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the sons of Merari, Asaiah, the chief, and his brothers, 220.
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 the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
from the Merarites, Asaiah the chief and 220 of his relatives;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
from the Merarites, Asaiah the chief and 220 of his relatives;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of the sonnes of Merari, Asaiah the chiefe, and his brethren two hundreth and twentie.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the sons of Merari, Asaia the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Of sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brethren, two hundred and twenty.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
of sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief and two hundred and twenty of his brothers;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the descendants of Merari, there was Asaiah the leader and his relatives, 220 men.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the sons of Merari, Asaiah, the chief, and his brothers, 220.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
from the sons of Merari, Asaiah (chief), with 220 of his relatives;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;
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עֲשָׂיָ֣ה
ʻĂsâyâh
H6222
“Asaiah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Kings 22:12
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Asaiah = "made by Jehovah"
- a prince of the tribe of Simeon in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah
- a servant of king Josiah of Judah
- a Merarite Levite, chief of his family, in the time of David
- לִבְנֵ֖י bên H1121 “to/for · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- מְרָרִ֑י Mᵉrârîy H4847 “Merari” Noun, Proper
- עֲשָׂיָ֣ה ʻĂsâyâh H6222 “Asaiah” Noun, Proper
- הַשָּׂ֔ר sar H8269 “the · prince” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶחָ֖יו ʼâch H251 “and · brothers · his” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מָאתַ֥יִם mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Dual, Absolute
- וְעֶשְׂרִֽים ʻesrîym H6242 “and · twenty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, 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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is עֲשָׂיָ֣ה Asaiah H6222 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עֲשָׂיָ֣ה Asaiah H6222 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 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
1Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 15:6 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 6:29–30 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
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.
ὁ υἱός μεραρι ασαια ὁ ἄρχων καί ὁ ἀδελφός αὐτός διακόσιοι πεντήκοντα
Of the sons of Merari; Asaia the chief, and his brethren, two hundred and twenty.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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Lesson kit
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻĂsâyâh (“Asaiah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʻĂsâyâh carries the sense “Asaiah.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 2 Kings 22:12, which shares the word «Asaiah», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.