1 Chronicles 17:18

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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לְכָב֣וֹד

kâbôwd

H3519

“to/for · glory”

Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute

Appears 200× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 31:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3513

TWOT: 943d , 943e

glory, honour, glorious, abundance - abundance, riches - honour, splendour, glory - honour, dignity - honour, reputation - honour, reverence, glory - glory

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 →

12: words
10: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns
1 pronoun
1 preposition
1 adverb
3 particles

Verb forms

יּוֹסִ֨יף Hiphil · Imperfect
יָדָֽעְתָּ Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ servant H5650 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →

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 12 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 17:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Samuel 2:30 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1 Samuel 16:7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
2 Samuel 7:20–24 What can David say more to you? for you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
Psalms 139:1 Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me.
John 21:17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
Revelation 2:23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

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.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 15 words vs World English Bible 22. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 17:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

מַה יּוֹסִ֨יף ע֥וֹד דָּוִ֛יד אֵלֶ֖יךָ לְכָב֣וֹד אֶת עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ וְאַתָּ֖ה אֶֽת עַבְדְּךָ֥ יָדָֽעְתָּ

What can David [say] yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 17:18 Septuagint · lemma form

τίς προςτίθημι ἔτι δαυίδ πρός σύ ὁ δοξάζω καί σύ ὁ δοῦλος σύ οἶδα

What shall David do more toward you to glorify you? and you know your servant.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 17:18 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ch 17:18 What can David [speak] more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.

Ver. 18. For thou knowest thy servant,] i.e., Thou knowest the thankfulness of my mind, which indeed is inexpressible.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ch 17:18-19. For the honour of thy servant — The honour God puts upon his servants, by taking them into covenant and communion with himself, is so great, that they need not, they cannot desire to be more highly honoured. Servant’s sake — In 2Sa 7:21, it is, for thy word’s sake, for the sake of thy promise made to thy servant.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(18) Samuel has the omitted “speak.” (Comp. Psa_120:3.) The word translated “for the honour,” may be a corruption of that for “to speak.”

Of thy servant?—The Hebrew term is in the accusative case, and should be omitted as a mistaken repetition of the same word at the end of the verse.

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

18. speak more] R.V. say yet more.

for the honour of thy servant] R.V. concerning the honour which is done to thy servant. Samuel omits these words.

thou knowest thy servant] Approvest, acceptest; cp. Psa_1:6; Psa_101:4; Jer_1:5.

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.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the honor of thy servant - i. e., “for the honor which Thou hast done for Thy servant.” The Septuagint omits “Thy servant,” and renders it: “What can David say more to Thee to glorify Thee? For Thou knowest,” etc.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Known him. Treating him with love and tenderness, as a friend. How can David sufficiently testify his gratitude?

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).

The Pulpit Commentary

Thy servant. The Septuagint Version has not got these words on their first occurrence. They may have found their way in wrongfully out of the next clause. They are not found in the parallel place. If they remain, they can mean nothing else than "How can David further acknowledge the honour conferred on thy servant, a sense by no means far-fetched.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The honour of thy servant - The honour God puts upon his servants, by taking them into covenant and communion with himself, is so great, that they need not, they cannot desire to be more highly honoured.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

What more need David [seek] You The meaning is: What need is there more for David to seek you?

to have glory as Your servant in order to do me honor, that I am Your servant, and You know by Yourself. In Samuel (II 7:20) it is written: “And what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord.”

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 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kâbôwd (“glory”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “glory” (kâbôwd) contribute to the verse as a whole?
1 Samuel 2:30 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“servant” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «יּוֹסִ֨יף» is Hiphil Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
“servant” occurs 2× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.