1 Chronicles 16:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it; Let the field exult, and all that is therein;

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יַעֲלֹ֥ץ

ʻâlats

H5970

“to exult”

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

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 2:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1635

to rejoice, exult - (Qal) to exult

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 →

8: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יַעֲלֹ֥ץ to exult H5970 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יַעֲלֹ֥ץ to exult H5970 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns
1 preposition
1 particle

Verb forms

יִרְעַ֤ם Qal · Imperfect
יַעֲלֹ֥ץ Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 18 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 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 16:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Psalms 98:7–8 Let the sea roar with its fullness; The world, and those who dwell therein.
Psalms 93:4 Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
Psalms 148:9–10 Mountains and all hills; Fruit trees and all cedars;
Isaiah 44:23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it; shout, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

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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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 16:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

יִרְעַ֤ם הַיָּם֙ וּמְלוֹא֔וֹ יַעֲלֹ֥ץ הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה וְכָל אֲשֶׁר בּֽוֹ

Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it; Let the field exult, and all that is therein;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 16:32 Septuagint · lemma form

βομβέω ὁ θάλασσα σύν ὁ πλήρωμα καί ξύλον ἀγρός καί πᾶς ὁ ἐν αὐτός

The sea with its fullness shall resound and the tree of the field, and all things in it.

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 16:32 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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unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

that which fills it shout with joy

The implied information is that this refers to all the creatures living in the sea. They are spoken of as if they should shout with joy like people might do. AT: "the sea creatures shout joyfully" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information and Personification)

Let the fields be joyful, and all that is in them

"Let the fields and all that is in them be joyful." The author speaks as if the fields and the animals that live in them have emotions like people. AT: "Let it be as if the fields themselves and all the animals that live in them are rejoicing" (See: Personification)

let the trees in the forest shout for joy

This speaks about the trees as if they were people who could shout for joy. (See: Personification)

translationWords

Yahweh

judge

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)

The sea and the fullness thereof will roar all the creatures in the sea. A similar example is (Isa. 44:23): “Sing, ye heavens, for the Lord has done this,” because He restored the Ark to us and sent destructive angels to execute justice upon the Philistines.

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

Discussion questions

The word ʻâlats carries the sense “to exult.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Samuel 2:1, which shares the word «to exult», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«יִרְעַ֤ם» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how unfoldingWord translationNotes and Rashi read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.