חִ֤ילוּ מִלְּפָנָיו֙ כָּל הָאָ֔רֶץ אַף תִּכּ֥וֹן תֵּבֵ֖ל בַּל תִּמּֽוֹט
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it can't be moved.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 16:30
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 16:30 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
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it can't be moved.
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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
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it can't be moved.
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King James Version Public Domain
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Tremble from his face, all of the earth. Indeed, the world is established; it will not be shaken.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it can't be moved.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
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King James Version Public Domain
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Tremble before him, all the earth: the world also is stablished that it cannot be moved.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Tremble ye before him, al the earth: surely the world shalbe stable and not moue.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Let all the earth be moved at his presence: for he hath founded the world immoveable.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Be pained before Him, all the earth:
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Be pained before Him, all the earth; Also, the world is established, || It is not moved!
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established; it cannot be shaken.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Tremble from his face, all of the earth. Indeed, the world is established; it will not be shaken.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established, it shall not be moved.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Let everyone on earth tremble in his presence. The world is held together firmly—it cannot be broken apart.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Be in fear before him, all the earth: the world is ordered so that it may not be moved.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Tremble before Him, all the earth; the world also is established that it cannot be moved.
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תֵּבֵ֖ל
têbêl
H8398
“world”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 36× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Samuel 2:8
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
world
- חִ֤ילוּ chûwl H2342 “writhe” Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- מִלְּפָנָיו֙ pânîym H6440 “from · to/for · face(s) · his” Preposition + Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הָאָ֔רֶץ ʼerets H776 “the · land” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- אַף ʼaph H637 “also” Particle, Accusative
- תִּכּ֥וֹן kûwn H3559 “to be established” Verb, Niphal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- תֵּבֵ֖ל têbêl H8398 “world” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- בַּל bal H1077 “not” Particle, Negative
- תִּמּֽוֹט môwṭ H4131 “to totter” Verb, Niphal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, 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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- בַּל not H1077
Shared distinctive vocabulary
תֵּבֵ֖ל world H8398 occurs in 36 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- חִ֤ילוּ Qal · Imperative
- תִּכּ֥וֹן Niphal · Imperfect
- תִּמּֽוֹט Niphal · Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 16 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 13 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
11Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 16:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Psalms 33:9 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
- Hebrews 1:3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Psalms 93:1 Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can't be moved.
- Psalms 148:5–6 Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded, and they were created.
- Revelation 11:15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!"
- 1 Chronicles 16:23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth; Show forth his salvation from day to day.
- 1 Chronicles 16:25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised: He also is to be feared above all gods.
- Psalms 96:9 Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.
- Isaiah 49:8 Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
- Jeremiah 10:12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
- Colossians 1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
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.
φοβέω ἀπό πρόσωπον αὐτός πᾶς ὁ γῆ καταὀρθόω ὁ γῆ καί μή σαλεύω
Let the whole earth fear before him; let the earth be established, and not be moved.
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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is têbêl (“world”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “world” (têbêl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This is the first place “not” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does 1 Samuel 2:8, which shares the word «world», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «חִ֤ילוּ» is a Qal Imperative verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 16:30 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.
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.
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).
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
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)
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.