1 Chronicles 2:30

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.

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2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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סֶ֣לֶד

Çeled

H5540

“Seled”

Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5539

TWOT: None

Seled = "exultation" - one of the sons of Nadab, a descendant of Jerahmeel

About this verse

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8: words
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is סֶ֣לֶד Seled H5540 — 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:

סֶ֣לֶד Seled H5540
וְאַפָּ֑יִם Appaim H649

Grammatical profile

1 verb
6 nouns
1 particle

Verb forms

וַיָּ֥מָת Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וּבְנֵ֥י son H1121 ×2
סֶ֣לֶד Seled H5540 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 13 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.

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 2:30 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֥י נָדָ֖ב סֶ֣לֶד וְאַפָּ֑יִם וַיָּ֥מָת סֶ֖לֶד לֹ֥א בָנִֽים

The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 2:30 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ναδαβ σαλαδ καί αφφαιμ καί ἀποθνήσκω σαλαδ οὐ ἔχω τέκνον

And the sons of Nadab; Salad and Apphain; and Salad died without children.

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 2:30 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

(30) Seled died without children.—That is, the clan Seled did not multiply, and subdivide into new groups. (Comp. 1Ch_2:32.)

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

John Gill's Exposition

Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel,.... Called Chelubai, Ch1 2:9 and is the same Caleb spoken of in Ch1 2:18 and his sons next reckoned were by a third wife, Azubah, Ephrath being dead, Ch1 2:19 and these sons were

Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; who gave name to the city of Ziph; there were two of this name in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:24 or this is the title of Mesha, governor of the city of Ziph; so the Targum calls him, prince of the Ziphites:

and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron; according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, the words are to be supplied thus, "and the sons of Ziph were Mareshah the father of Hebron"; which, though sometimes the name of a city in the tribe of Judah, is here the name of a man, from whom, perhaps, the city had its name, since Hebron is said to have sons in the next verse; Jarchi makes Mesha to be the prince of Ziph, and prince of the children of Mareshah, and prince of Hebron.

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

Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel,.... Called Chelubai, Ch1 2:9 and is the same Caleb spoken of in Ch1 2:18 and his sons next reckoned were by a third wife, Azubah, Ephrath being dead, Ch1 2:19 and these sons were

Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; who gave name to the city of Ziph; there were two of this name in the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:24 or this is the title of Mesha, governor of the city of Ziph; so the Targum calls him, prince of the Ziphites:

and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron; according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, the words are to be supplied thus, "and the sons of Ziph were Mareshah the father of Hebron"; which, though sometimes the name of a city in the tribe of Judah, is here the name of a man, from whom, perhaps, the city had its name, since Hebron is said to have sons in the next verse; Jarchi makes Mesha to be the prince of Ziph, and prince of the children of Mareshah, and prince of Hebron.

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 8 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Çeled (“Seled”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Çeled carries the sense “Seled.” How does it shape the verse?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
“son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וַיָּ֥מָת» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.