לִבְנֵ֖י אֱלִֽיצָפָ֑ן שְׁמַֽעְיָ֥ה הַשָּׂ֖ר וְאֶחָ֥יו מָאתָֽיִם
of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 15:8
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 15:8 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 Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
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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 Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah, the chief, and his brothers, 200.
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 Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the chief and 200 of his relatives;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the chief and 200 of his relatives;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of the sonnes of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chiefe, and his brethren two hundreth.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the sons of Elisaphan, Semeias the chief: and his brethren two hundred.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Of sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren, two hundred.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
of sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief and two hundred of his brothers;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the descendants of Elizaphan, there was Shemaiah the leader and his relatives, 200 men.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah, the chief, and his brothers, 200.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
from the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah (chief), with 200 of his relatives;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred;
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אֱלִֽיצָפָ֑ן
ʼĔlîytsâphân
H469
“Elizaphan”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 6:22
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Elizaphan or Elzaphan = "my God has protected"
- a Kohathite chief in the wilderness
- a Zebulunite chief
- Uzziel's son, Mishael's brother in time of Moses
- לִבְנֵ֖י bên H1121 “to/for · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אֱלִֽיצָפָ֑ן ʼĔlîytsâphân H469 “Elizaphan” Noun, Proper
- שְׁמַֽעְיָ֥ה Shᵉmaʻyâh H8098 “Shemaiah” Noun, Proper
- הַשָּׂ֖ר sar H8269 “the · prince” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶחָ֥יו ʼâch H251 “and · brothers · his” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מָאתָֽיִם mêʼâh H3967 “hundred” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Dual, 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אֱלִֽיצָפָ֑ן Elizaphan H469 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אֱלִֽיצָפָ֑ן Elizaphan H469 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 13 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 11 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 15:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 6:22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.
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 ελισαφαν σαμαιας ὁ ἄρχων καί ὁ ἀδελφός αὐτός διακόσιοι
Of the sons of Elisaphat; Semei the chief, and his brethren, two hundred.
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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĔlîytsâphân (“Elizaphan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Elizaphan” (ʼĔlîytsâphân) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Exodus 6:22, which shares the word «Elizaphan», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 15:8 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 →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).