לֵאמֹ֗ר לְךָ֙ אֶתֵּ֣ן אֶֽרֶץ כְּנָ֔עַן חֶ֖בֶל נַחֲלַתְכֶֽם
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 16:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 16:18 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
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
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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
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
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King James Version Public Domain
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
saying, “I will give to you the land of Canaan the portion of your inheritance,”
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
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’
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King James Version Public Domain
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Saying, To thee will I giue the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritance.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Saying: To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Saying, To you I give the land of Canaan, || The portion of your inheritance,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He said, “I will give you the land of Canaan as your share of your inheritance.”
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
saying, “I will give to you the land of Canaan the portion of your inheritance,”
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,”
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Saying, To thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
saying, “I will give the land of Canaan to you for you to possess.”
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Saying: 'Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.'
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חֶ֖בֶל
chebel
H2256
“cord of”
Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- Appears 62× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Deuteronomy 3:4
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Both
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
a cord, rope, territory, band, company
- a rope, cord
- a measuring-cord or line
- a measured portion, lot, part, region
- a band or company
- pain, sorrow, travail, pang
- pains of travail
- pains, pangs, sorrows
- union
- destruction
- לֵאמֹ֗ר ʼâmar H559 “to say” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- אֶתֵּ֣ן nâthan H5414 “to give” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- אֶֽרֶץ ʼerets H776 “land of” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- כְּנָ֔עַן Kᵉnaʻan H3667 “Canaan” Noun, Proper
- חֶ֖בֶל chebel H2256 “cord of” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- נַחֲלַתְכֶֽם nachălâh H5159 “inheritance · your” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
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
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- לֵאמֹ֗ר Qal · Infinitive Construct
- אֶתֵּ֣ן Qal · Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 9 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
8Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 16:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 13:15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
- Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 26:53–56 To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
- Genesis 12:7 Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
- Genesis 17:8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
- Genesis 28:13–14 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
- Genesis 35:11–12 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
- Micah 2:5 Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.
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.
λέγω σύ δίδωμι ὁ γῆ χανααν σχοίνισμα κληρονομία σύ
saying, To you will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance:
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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chebel (“cord”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word chebel carries the sense “cord.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Genesis 13:15, 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?
- «לֵאמֹ֗ר» is a Qal Infinitive Construct verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- 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 7 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 16:18 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.
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.