1 Chronicles 2:33

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

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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וְזָזָ֑א

zâzâʼ

H2117

“and · Zaza”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably from the root of H2123

TWOT: None

Zaza = "brightness" or " fulness" - one of the sons of Jonathan, descendant of Jerahmeel

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
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

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

וְזָזָ֑א Zaza H2117

First appearance in Scripture

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

וְזָזָ֑א Zaza H2117

Shared distinctive vocabulary

פֶּ֣לֶת Peleth H6431 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Numbers 16:1

Grammatical profile

1 verb
6 nouns
1 pronoun

Verb forms

הָי֖וּ Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וּבְנֵ֥י son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 14 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 10 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 2:33 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֥י יוֹנָתָ֖ן פֶּ֣לֶת וְזָזָ֑א אֵ֥לֶּה הָי֖וּ בְּנֵ֥י יְרַחְמְאֵֽל

The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 2:33 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός ιωναθαν φαλεθ καί οζαζα οὗτος εἰμί υἱός ιερεμεηλ

And the sons of Jonathan; Phaleth, and Hozam. These were the sons of Jerameel.

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 2:33 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

(33) These were the sons of Jerahmeel.—Subscription of the list contained in 1Ch_2:25-33. It is noteworthy that the total of the names from Judah to Zaza again amounts to about seventy. (Comp. 1 Chronicles 1; see also Gen_46:27.)

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

And Ephah Caleb's concubine bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez,.... An half-wife, or secondary wife; for though this man seems not to have had more wives than one at a time, yet he had concubines with them; we read of another after this, if not a third:

and Haran begat Gazez; whom he so named after his brother.

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

And Ephah Caleb's concubine bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez,.... An half-wife, or secondary wife; for though this man seems not to have had more wives than one at a time, yet he had concubines with them; we read of another after this, if not a third:

and Haran begat Gazez; whom he so named after his brother.

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 (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is zâzâʼ (“Zaza”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Zaza” (zâzâʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
This is the first place “Zaza” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does Numbers 16:1, which shares the word «Peleth», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
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?
«הָי֖וּ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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 8 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.