וְזָבָד֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת אֶפְלָ֔ל וְאֶפְלָ֖ל הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת עוֹבֵֽד
and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 2:37
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:37 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
and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed.
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
and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Zabad was the father of Ephlal, Ephlal was the father of Obed,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Zabad was the father of Ephlal, Ephlal was the father of Obed,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Zabad begate Ephlal, and Ephlal begate Obed,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Zabad beget Ophlal, and Ophlal beget Obed.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Zabad was the father of Ephlal, Ephlal was the father of Obed,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed;
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אֶפְלָ֔ל
ʼEphlâl
H654
“Ephlal”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ephlal = "intercessor"
- a descendant of Pharez
- וְזָבָד֙ Zâbâd H2066 “and · Zabad” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֣יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אֶפְלָ֔ל ʼEphlâl H654 “Ephlal” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶפְלָ֖ל ʼEphlâl H654 “and · Ephlal” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֥יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- עוֹבֵֽד ʻÔwbêd H5744 “Obed” 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 אֶפְלָ֔ל Ephlal H654 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- אֶפְלָ֔ל Ephlal H654
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- הוֹלִ֣יד Hiphil · Perfect
- הוֹלִ֥יד Hiphil · Perfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 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.
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 14. 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 ζαβεδ γεννάω ὁ αφαληλ καί αφαληλ γεννάω ὁ ωβηδ
and Zabed begot Aphamel, and Aphamel begot Obed.
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 ʼEphlâl (“Ephlal”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Ephlal” (ʼEphlâl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This is the first place “Ephlal” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- What does the repetition of “to bear” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «הוֹלִ֣יד» is a Hiphil Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
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.