וַעֲזַרְיָה֙ הֹלִ֣יד אֶת חָ֔לֶץ וְחֶ֖לֶץ הֹלִ֥יד אֶת אֶלְעָשָֽׂה
and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 2:39
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:39 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 Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
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 Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
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 Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Azariah was the father of Helez, Helez was the father of Elasah,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Azariah was the father of Helez, Helez was the father of Elasah,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Azariah begate Helez, and Helez begate Eleasah,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Azarias beget Helles, and Helles begot Elasa.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Jehu begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Jehu begot Azariah, and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Elasah,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Azariah was the father of Helez, Helez was the father of Eleasah,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah;
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חָ֔לֶץ
Chelets
H2503
“Helez”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Samuel 23:26
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Helez = "he has saved"
- an Ephraimite, one of the 30 of David's mighty warriors, leader of the 7th monthly course
- a man of Judah, son of Azariah
- וַעֲזַרְיָה֙ ʻĂzaryâh H5838 “and · Azariah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הֹלִ֣יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- חָ֔לֶץ Chelets H2503 “Helez” Noun, Proper
- וְחֶ֖לֶץ Chelets H2503 “and · Helez” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הֹלִ֥יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אֶלְעָשָֽׂה ʼElʻâsâh H501 “Elasah” 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 חָ֔לֶץ Helez H2503 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- אֶלְעָשָֽׂה Elasah H501
Shared distinctive vocabulary
חָ֔לֶץ Helez H2503 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- הֹלִ֣יד Hiphil · Perfect
- הֹלִ֥יד 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 αζαριας γεννάω ὁ χελλης καί χελλης γεννάω ὁ ελεασα
And Azarias begot Chelles, and Chelles begot Eleasa,
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 Chelets (“Helez”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Helez” (Chelets) shape what this verse is saying?
- This is the first place “Elasah” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does 2 Samuel 23:26, which shares the word «Helez», read alongside this verse?
- 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?
- «הֹלִ֣יד» 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.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 2:39 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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