1 Chronicles 2:29

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

Download a study sheet

One document with this verse’s original text, its word-by-word gloss line, the meaning frame, cross-references with their text, attributed commentary, and full source and license credits — printable, and it pastes into notes with its structure intact.

This verse Autodidact and up

Study sheet (.html) Plain text (.txt)

A passage Seminary Student

Up to 50 verses in one chapter. A passage sheet keeps up to 6 commentary sources and 12 cross-references per verse, in the order this page ranks them, and says so on the sheet whenever that leaves anything out. Ask for a single verse and you get the Autodidact verse sheet above.

Everything on this page stays free to read, with no account — the sheet is a download of what is already on screen, not access to it.

Want to remove ads? Support Godless Engineer

Word by word

More ways to search: Search by grammar → Find every occurrence → Compare this word →

Practice this passage: Drill this verse → Learn its vocabulary →

אַחְבָּ֖ן

ʼAchbân

H257

“Ahban”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H251 and H995

TWOT: None

Ahban = "brother of an understanding (intelligent) one" - son of Abishur of Judah

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 →

10: words
8: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

אַחְבָּ֖ן Ahban H257
מוֹלִֽיד Molid H4140

First appearance in Scripture

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

אַחְבָּ֖ן Ahban H257
מוֹלִֽיד Molid H4140

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֲבִישׁ֖וּר Abishur H51 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

1 Chronicles 2:28

Grammatical profile

1 verb
6 nouns
1 preposition
2 particles

Verb forms

וַתֵּ֣לֶד Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 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 10 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.

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 2:29 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְשֵׁ֛ם אֵ֥שֶׁת אֲבִישׁ֖וּר אֲבִיהָ֑יִל וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֔וֹ אֶת אַחְבָּ֖ן וְאֶת מוֹלִֽיד

The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 2:29 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὄνομα ὁ γυνή αβισουρ αβιχαιλ καί τίκτω αὐτός ὁ αχαβαρ καί ὁ μωλιδ

And the name of the wife of Abisur was Abichaia, and she bore him Achabar, and Moel.

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 2:29 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

And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife,.... Having first given him his freedom, as the Targum premises; this daughter seems to be Ahlai, Ch1 2:31 which receives confirmation from Zabad, one of the descendants of this man, Ch1 2:36, being said to be the son of Ahlai, Ch1 11:41, that is, great-grandson:

and she bare him Attai; the genealogy of whose descendants is given to the end of Ch1 2:41, of whom no mention is made elsewhere, but of Zabad, as before observed; and, according to the Jews, it is given for the sake of Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, the last person mentioned in this genealogy; which Ishmael slew Gedaliah governor of Jerusalem, and is said to be of the seed royal, Jer 41:1.

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

lyihybia lyijybia lyigybia are the readings of various manuscripts in this verse.

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

And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife,.... Having first given him his freedom, as the Targum premises; this daughter seems to be Ahlai, Ch1 2:31 which receives confirmation from Zabad, one of the descendants of this man, Ch1 2:36, being said to be the son of Ahlai, Ch1 11:41, that is, great-grandson:

and she bare him Attai; the genealogy of whose descendants is given to the end of Ch1 2:41, of whom no mention is made elsewhere, but of Zabad, as before observed; and, according to the Jews, it is given for the sake of Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, the last person mentioned in this genealogy; which Ishmael slew Gedaliah governor of Jerusalem, and is said to be of the seed royal, Jer 41:1.

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.)

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

All of the names here except Abishur are the names of men. Abishur is the name of a woman. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

die

children

Jonathan

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼAchbân (“Ahban”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Ahban” (ʼAchbân) shape what this verse is saying?
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?
1 Chronicles 2:28 shares the word «Abishur» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
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 «וַתֵּ֣לֶד» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how John Gill's Exposition and The Pulpit Commentary 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 10 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.