לִבְנֵ֖י חֶבְר֑וֹן אֱלִיאֵ֥ל הַשָּׂ֖ר וְאֶחָ֥יו שְׁמוֹנִֽים
of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 15:9
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 15:9 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 Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
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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 Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel, the chief, and his brothers, 80.
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 Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
from the Hebronites, Eliel the chief and 80 of his relatives;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
from the Hebronites, Eliel the chief and 80 of his relatives;
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of the sonnes of Hebron, Eliel the chiefe, and his brethren fourescore.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief: and his brethren eighty.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Of sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brethren, eighty.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
of sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief and eighty of his brothers;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the descendants of Hebron, there was Eliel the leader and his relatives, eighty men.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel, the chief, and his brothers, 80.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brethren eighty;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren eighty:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
from the sons of Hebron, Eliel (chief), with 80 of his relatives;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore;
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אֱלִיאֵ֥ל
ʼĔlîyʼêl
H447
“Eliel”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 5:24
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Eliel = "my God is God" or " El is God"
- an ancestor of Samuel
- chief in David's army (might be two or three different men)
- a Levite with David in moving the ark
- a chief of Manasseh
- two chiefs of Benjamin
- a chief Kohathite
- a Levite
- לִבְנֵ֖י bên H1121 “to/for · sons of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- חֶבְר֑וֹן Chebrôwn H2275 “Hebron” Noun, Proper
- אֱלִיאֵ֥ל ʼĔlîyʼêl H447 “Eliel” 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
- שְׁמוֹנִֽים shᵉmônîym H8084 “eighty” 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אֱלִיאֵ֥ל Eliel H447 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אֱלִיאֵ֥ל Eliel H447 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 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
7Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 15:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 6:18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.
- Numbers 26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.
- 1 Chronicles 6:2 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
- 1 Chronicles 23:12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
- 1 Chronicles 23:19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
- 1 Chronicles 26:23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:
- 1 Chronicles 26:30–31 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
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 χεβρων ελιηλ ὁ ἄρχων καί ὁ ἀδελφός αὐτός ὀγδοήκοντα
Of the sons of Chebrom; Eliel the chief, and his brethren eighty.
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
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĔlîyʼêl (“Eliel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʼĔlîyʼêl carries the sense “Eliel.” How does it shape the verse?
- 1 Chronicles 5:24 shares the word «Eliel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
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 15:9 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.
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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.