1 Chronicles 2:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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רַדַּ֖י

Radday

H7288

“Raddai”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: intensive from H7287

TWOT: None

Raddai = "trampling" - the 5th son of Jesse and brother of David

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 →

4: words
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

רַדַּ֖י Raddai H7288

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

רַדַּ֖י Raddai H7288

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נְתַנְאֵל֙ Nethaneel H5417 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 nouns
2 adjectives

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 6 words from the Hebrew and 6 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 4 Hebrew tokens and 6 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 2:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

נְתַנְאֵל֙ הָֽרְבִיעִ֔י רַדַּ֖י הַחֲמִישִֽׁי

Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 2:14 Septuagint · lemma form

ναθαναηλ ὁ τέταρτος ραδδαι ὁ πέμπτος

Nathanael the fourth, Zabdai the fifth,

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 2:14 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 →

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

2:14-15 The Chronicler lists David as the seventh son of Jesse, while Samuel makes him the eighth (1 Sam 16:6-13; 17:12). Samuel does not provide the names of David’s fourth, fifth, or sixth brothers (Nethanel, Raddai, and Ozem). Later, the Chronicler lists a brother named Elihu, who might or might not have been an additional son (see study note on 1 Chr 27:18). The number seven (the “perfect” number) perhaps symbolizes that David was chosen by God to rule.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

14. Nethaneel] R.V. Nethanel. It is the same name as Nathanael (Joh_1:45). The fourth, fifth and sixth of David’s brothers are not elsewhere named.

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.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Radday (“Raddai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Radday carries the sense “Raddai.” How does it shape the verse?
This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
The word “Raddai” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Numbers 1:8 shares the word «Nethaneel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 4 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.