1 Chronicles 2:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur.

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Highlights

3 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וְיָדָ֑ע

Yâdâʻ

H3047

“and · Jada”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3045

TWOT: None

Jada = "He knows" - a Judahite, son of Onam and brother of Shammai, in the genealogy of the sons of Jerahmeel by his wife Atarah

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 →

9: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְיָדָ֑ע Jada H3047 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

שַׁמַּ֣י Shammai H8060
וְיָדָ֑ע Jada H3047
וַאֲבִישֽׁוּר Abishur H51

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְיָדָ֑ע Jada H3047 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

1 Chronicles 2:32

Grammatical profile

1 verb
8 nouns

Verb forms

וַיִּהְי֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בְנֵי son H1121 ×2
שַׁמַּ֣י Shammai H8060 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 13 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.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 2:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵי אוֹנָ֖ם שַׁמַּ֣י וְיָדָ֑ע וּבְנֵ֣י שַׁמַּ֔י נָדָ֖ב וַאֲבִישֽׁוּר

The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 2:28 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἰμί υἱός οζομ σαμαι καί ιαδαε καί υἱός σαμαι ναδαβ καί αβισουρ

And the sons of Ozom were, Samai, and Jadae: and the sons of Samai; Nadab, and Abisur.

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 2:28 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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John Gill's Exposition

Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters,.... And but one of that sort, whose name was Ahlai, Ch1 2:31 the plural being put here for the singular; or, if that is the name of a son, as some think, he died in his father's lifetime, and left no issue; so that there only remained daughters, and it seems but one by the next verse:

and Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha; one born in his house, and brought up by him, and a proselyte, such an one as Eliezer in Abraham's family.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

One manuscript makes Nadab and Abishur two additional sons of Onam, by omitting the words and the sons of Shammai.

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

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters,.... And but one of that sort, whose name was Ahlai, Ch1 2:31 the plural being put here for the singular; or, if that is the name of a son, as some think, he died in his father's lifetime, and left no issue; so that there only remained daughters, and it seems but one by the next verse:

and Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha; one born in his house, and brought up by him, and a proselyte, such an one as Eliezer in Abraham's family.

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.)

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yâdâʻ (“Jada”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yâdâʻ carries the sense “Jada.” How does it shape the verse?
3 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does 1 Chronicles 2:32, which shares the word «Jada», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וַיִּהְי֥וּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how John Gill's Exposition and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.