1 Chronicles 19:11

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 19:11 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.
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The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
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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
    The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he put the rest of the people in the hand of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed to meet the sons of Ammon.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And he placed the rest of the forces under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And he placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he deliuered vnto the hande of Abishai his brother, and they put them selues in aray against the children of Ammon.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abisai his brother, and they went against the children of Ammon.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and the remnant of the people he hath given into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set in array to meet the sons of Ammon.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and he has given the remnant of the people into the hand of his brother Abishai, and they set in array to meet the sons of Ammon.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    As for the rest of the army, he gave it into the command of Abishai his brother, and he put them into battle lines against the army of Ammon.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he put the rest of the people in the hand of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed to meet the sons of Ammon.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and the rest of the people he gave into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he delivered to the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He put the rest of the army under the command of Abishai, his brother. They were to attack the Ammonites.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon with Abishai, his brother, at their head.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother, and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

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אַבְשַׁ֣י
ʼĂbîyshay
H52
“Abishai”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1 and H7862

TWOT: None

Abishai = "my father is Jesse" or " my father is a gift" - grandson of Jesse, nephew of David via his sister Zeruiah, brother of Joab
  1. וְאֵת֙ ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  2. יֶ֣תֶר yether H3499 “remainder of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  3. הָעָ֔ם ʻam H5971 “the · people” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. נָתַ֕ן nâthan H5414 “to give” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. בְּיַ֖ד yâd H3027 “in/at · hand of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
  6. אָחִ֑יו ʼâch H251 “brother · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. וַיַּ֣עַרְכ֔וּ ʻârak H6186 “and · to arrange” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  8. לִקְרַ֖את qirʼâh H7125 “to meet” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
  9. בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  10. עַמּֽוֹן ʻAmmôwn H5983 “Ammon” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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11
words
11
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אַבְשַׁ֣י Abishai H52 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אַבְשַׁ֣י Abishai H52 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 7 nouns
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • נָתַ֕ן Qal · Perfect
  • וַיַּ֣עַרְכ֔וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
  • לִקְרַ֖את Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 26 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.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 17 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

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 19:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.
  • 1 Chronicles 11:20 Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
  • 1 Chronicles 19:9 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 19:11 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֵת֙ יֶ֣תֶר הָעָ֔ם נָתַ֕ן בְּיַ֖ד אַבְשַׁ֣י אָחִ֑יו וַיַּ֣עַרְכ֔וּ לִקְרַ֖את בְּנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן

The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 19:11 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ κατάλοιπος ὁ λαός δίδωμι ἐν χείρ αβεσσα ἀδελφός αὐτός καί παρατάσσω ἐκ ἐναντίος υἱός αμμων

And the rest of the people he gave into the hand of his brother Abesai, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

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 19:11 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(11) They sot themselves in array.—Samuel, singular, as in 1Ch_19:10.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

into the hands of Abshai To Abishai, who is called Abshai throughout the entire Book of Chronicles, both in the written text and in the reading, except for these two cases, which are exceptions to the rule according to the Masorah. The reason that he is called Abshai in this entire Book is because it was written in David’s honor, and it is not honor to call his nephew Abishai, meaning: “I, too, am as esteemed as David because my [grand]father was Jesse [Yishai]” Therefore, in this entire Book, he is called Abshai, and in the entire Book of Samuel he is called Abishai, except once, where he is called Abshai: (II Sam. 10:10): “And the rest of the people he gave over to Abshai his brother.” This is according to the Masorah, because Jesse was the father of his mother, Zeruiah, who was his mother.

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.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîyshay (“Abishai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Abishai” (ʼĂbîyshay) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does 1 Samuel 26:6, which shares the word «Abishai», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «נָתַ֕ן» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and Rashi read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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