וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵי רָ֖ם בְּכ֣וֹר יְרַחְמְאֵ֑ל מַ֥עַץ וְיָמִ֖ין וָעֵֽקֶר
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 2:27
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:27 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
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
Highlights
- 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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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 sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the sonnes of Ram the eldest sonne of Ierahmeel were Maaz, and Iamin and Ekar.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerameel, were Moos, Jamin, and Achar.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And sons of Ram, first-born of Jerahmeel, are Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And sons of Ram, firstborn of Jerahmeel, are Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin and Eker.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
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מַ֥עַץ
Maʻats
H4619
“Maaz”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Maaz = "wrath"
- son of Ram and grandson of Jerahmeel of the tribe of Judah
- וַיִּהְי֥וּ hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- בְנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- רָ֖ם Râm H7410 “Ram” Noun, Proper
- בְּכ֣וֹר bᵉkôwr H1060 “firstborn of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יְרַחְמְאֵ֑ל Yᵉrachmᵉʼêl H3396 “Jerahmeel” Noun, Proper
- מַ֥עַץ Maʻats H4619 “Maaz” Noun, Proper
- וְיָמִ֖ין Yâmîyn H3226 “and · Jamin” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וָעֵֽקֶר ʻÊqer H6134 “and · Eker” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
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
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְיָמִ֖ין Jamin H3226 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 7 nouns
Verb forms
- וַיִּהְי֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 11 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
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.
καί εἰμί υἱός ραμ πρωτότοκος ιερεμεηλ μαας καί ιαμιν καί ακορ
And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerameel were Maas, and Jamin, and Acor.
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 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Maʻats (“Maaz”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Maʻats carries the sense “Maaz.” How does it shape the verse?
- This verse holds 2 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
- 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- Genesis 46:10 shares the word «Jamin» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The verb «וַיִּהְי֥וּ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Keil & Delitzsch read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 2:27 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 →
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)