1 Chronicles 16:10

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Glory you in his holy name; Let the heart of them rejoice who seek Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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יִשְׂמַ֕ח

sâmach

H8055

“to rejoice”

Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 158× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 4:14

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 2268

to rejoice, be glad - (Qal) - to rejoice - to rejoice (arrogantly), exult (at) - to rejoice (religiously) - (Piel) to cause to rejoice, gladden, make glad - (Hiphil) to cause to rejoice, gladden, make glad

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

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
4 nouns

Verb forms

הִֽתְהַֽלְלוּ֙ Hithpael · Imperative
יִשְׂמַ֕ח Qal · Imperfect
מְבַקְשֵׁ֥י Piel · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 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

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 16:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Matthew 7:7–8 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Jeremiah 29:13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
Psalms 34:2 My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Isaiah 55:6–7 Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
Isaiah 45:25 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Jeremiah 9:23–24 Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;
1 Chronicles 28:9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
1 Corinthians 1:30–31 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 16:10 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

הִֽתְהַֽלְלוּ֙ בְּשֵׁ֣ם קָדְשׁ֔וֹ יִשְׂמַ֕ח לֵ֖ב מְבַקְשֵׁ֥י יְהוָֽה

Glory you in his holy name; Let the heart of them rejoice who seek Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 16:10 Septuagint · lemma form

αἰνέω ἐν ὄνομα ἅγιος αὐτός εὐφραίνω καρδία ζητέω ὁ εὐδοκία αὐτός

Praise his holy name, the heart that seeks his pleasure shall rejoice.

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 16:10 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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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 10. That seek the Lord.] "That seek the WORD of the Lord." - T.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(10) That seek the Lord.—Comp. 1Ch_13:3; 1Ch_15:13, where a synonymous term is used. Both occur in 1Ch_16:11.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Boast in his holy name

Here "his holy name" represents Yahweh. AT: "Boast in who Yahweh is" or "Boast in Yahweh" (See: Metonymy)

let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice

Here "the heart" represents the person who seeks Yahweh. AT: "let the people who seek Yahweh rejoice" (See: Synecdoche)

Seek Yahweh and his strength

To "seek Yahweh's strength" means to ask him to strengthen you. AT: "Seek Yahweh and ask him to give you his strength" (See: Idiom)

seek his presence continually

"seek to be near him always"

translationWords

boast

holy

heart

joy

seek

strength

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)

Glory in His holy name saying that whoever believes in our God - He will help him. A similar instance is (Isa. 41:16): “... with the Holy One of Israel shall you praise yourself.”

of His holy name that you have a holy God like our God, and so (Deut. 4:7): “... like the Lord our God whenever we call out to Him.”

may the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice and when he does good, the heart of he who seeks the Lord with a whole heart is able to rejoice. Therefore...

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 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is sâmach (“to rejoice”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to rejoice” (sâmach) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Matthew 7:7–8, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«הִֽתְהַֽלְלוּ֙» is a Hithpael Imperative verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.