סַפְּר֤וּ בַגּוֹיִם֙ אֶת כְּבוֹד֔וֹ בְּכָל הָעַמִּ֖ים נִפְלְאֹתָֽיו
Declare his glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 16:24
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 16:24 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
Declare his glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples.
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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
Declare his glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples.
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King James Version Public Domain
Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvelous works among all nations.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Recount his glory among the nations, his wonderful doings, among all of the peoples.
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
Declare his glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
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King James Version Public Domain
Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvelous works among all nations.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Declare his glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Declare his glory among the nations, and his wonderful workes among all people.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Rehearse among nations His glory, Among all the peoples His wonders.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Recount His glory among nations, || His wonders among all the peoples.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all the nations.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Recount his glory among the nations, his wonderful doings, among all of the peoples.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Declare his glory among the nations, His wondrous works among all peoples.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Declare his glory among the heathen; his wonderful works among all nations.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Declare his glorious acts among the nations, the wonderful things he does among all peoples.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Declare His glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples.
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נִפְלְאֹתָֽיו
pâlâʼ
H6381
“being wonderful · him”
Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 71× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 18:14
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Niphal
- Form
- Participle Active
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
to be marvellous, be wonderful, be surpassing, be extraordinary, separate by distinguishing action
- (Niphal)
- to be beyond one's power, be difficult to do
- to be difficult to understand
- to be wonderful, be extraordinary
- marvellous (participle)
- (Piel) to separate (an offering)
- (Hiphil)
- to do extraordinary or hard or difficult thing
- to make wonderful, do wondrously
- (Hithpael) to show oneself wonderful or marvellous
- סַפְּר֤וּ çâphar H5608 “count” Verb, Piel, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- בַגּוֹיִם֙ gôwy H1471 “in/at the · nations” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- כְּבוֹד֔וֹ kâbôwd H3519 “glory · his” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- בְּכָל kôl H3605 “in/at · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הָעַמִּ֖ים ʻam H5971 “the · peoples” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- נִפְלְאֹתָֽיו pâlâʼ H6381 “being wonderful · him” Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- סַפְּר֤וּ Piel · Imperative
- נִפְלְאֹתָֽיו Niphal · Participle Active
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 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.
Cross-references
4Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 16:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Isaiah 12:2–6 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."
- Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
- Daniel 4:1–3 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
- 2 Kings 19:19 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save you us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you Yahweh are God alone.
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.
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Declare among the nations his glory, his wondrous deeds among all peoples.
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 pâlâʼ (“to be wonderful”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word pâlâʼ carries the sense “to be wonderful.” How does it shape the verse?
- Isaiah 12:2–6 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «סַפְּר֤וּ» is Piel Imperative. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Rashi read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 16:24 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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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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.