וְעוֹבֵד֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת יֵה֔וּא וְיֵה֖וּא הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת עֲזַרְיָֽה
and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 2:38
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:38 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 Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
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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
and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. ts\*
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 Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Obed was the father of Jehu, Jehu was the father of Azariah,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Obed was the father of Jehu, Jehu was the father of Azariah,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Obed begate Iehu, and Iehu begate Azariah,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Obed beget Jehu, Jehu beget Azarias.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Obed begat Jehu,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Obed begot Jehu,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. ts\*
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Obed was the father of Jehu, Jehu was the father of Azariah,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah;
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וְעוֹבֵד֙
ʻÔwbêd
H5744
“and · Obed”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Ruth 4:17
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Obed = "serving"
- son of Boaz by Ruth and the grandfather of David
- a Judaite, a descendant of Jarha, the Egyptian slave of Sheshan, in the line of Jerahmeel
- a Judaite, father of Azariah, one of the captains of hundreds who joined with Jehoiada in the revolution by which Athaliah fell
- one of David's mighty warriors
- son of Shemaiah and a gatekeeper of the temple
- וְעוֹבֵד֙ ʻÔwbêd H5744 “and · Obed” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֣יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- יֵה֔וּא Yêhûwʼ H3058 “Jehu” Noun, Proper
- וְיֵה֖וּא Yêhûwʼ H3058 “and · Jehu” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֥יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- עֲזַרְיָֽה ʻĂzaryâh H5838 “Azariah” 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 וְעוֹבֵד֙ Obed H5744 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְעוֹבֵד֙ Obed H5744 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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 ωβηδ γεννάω ὁ ιηου καί ιηου γεννάω ὁ αζαριας
And Obed begot Jeu, and Jeu begot Azarias.
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 ʻÔwbêd (“Obed”). 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 ʻÔwbêd carries the sense “Obed.” How does it shape the verse?
- Ruth 4:17 shares the word «Obed» 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?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «הוֹלִ֣יד» is Hiphil Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 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 2:38 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.