וְעַתַּי֙ הֹלִ֣יד אֶת נָתָ֔ן וְנָתָ֖ן הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת זָבָֽד
Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 2:36
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:36 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
Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
Highlights
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
- Septuagint runs shorter here — compare
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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
Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad.
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
Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Attai was the father of Nathan, Nathan was the father of Zabad,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Attai was the father of Nathan, Nathan was the father of Zabad,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Attai begate Nathan, and Nathan begate Zabad,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Ethei begot Nathan, and Nathan beget Zabad.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Attai was the father of Nathan. Nathan was the father of Zabad,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad;
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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וְעַתַּי֙
ʻAttay
H6262
“and · Attai”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 2:35
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Attai = "opportune"
- a Judaite, grandson of Sheshan the Jerahmeelite by daughter Ahlai whom he gave in marriage to Jarha, his Egyptian slave; his grandson Zabad was one of David's mighty warriors
- one of the lion-faced warriors of Gad, captains of the host, who joined David in the wilderness
- the 2nd son of king Rehoboam of Judah by Maachah, the daughter of Absalom
- וְעַתַּי֙ ʻAttay H6262 “and · Attai” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הֹלִ֣יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- נָתָ֔ן Nâthân H5416 “Nathan” Noun, Proper
- וְנָתָ֖ן Nâthân H5416 “and · Nathan” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֥יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- זָבָֽד Zâbâd H2066 “Zabad” 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
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְעַתַּי֙ Attai H6262 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- זָבָֽד Zabad H2066
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְעַתַּי֙ Attai H6262 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- הֹלִ֣יד Hiphil · Perfect
- הוֹלִ֥יד Hiphil · Perfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 8 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 2:36 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 8 words vs World English Bible 13. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί εθθι γεννάω ὁ ναθαν καί ναθαν γεννάω ὁ ζαβεδ
And Ethi begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabed,
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 (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻAttay (“Attai”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʻAttay carries the sense “Attai.” How does it shape the verse?
- The word “Zabad” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 1 Chronicles 2:35 shares the word «Attai» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “to bear” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
- 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 «הֹלִ֣יד» is Hiphil Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how The Pulpit Commentary and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “to bear” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 2:36 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 →
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.