וּבְנֵ֖י חֶבְר֑וֹן קֹ֥רַח וְתַפֻּ֖חַ וְרֶ֥קֶם וָשָֽׁמַע
The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 2:43
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:43 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
The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.
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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
The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the sonnes of Hebron were Korah and Tappuah, and Rekem and Shema.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron, Core, and Thaphua, and Recem, and Samma.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Hebron were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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וָשָֽׁמַע
Shemaʻ
H8087
“and · Shema”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Shema = "hear"
- a Reubenite, son of Joel, father of Azaz, and grandfather of Bela
- a Judaite, son of Hebron and father of Raham
- a Benjamite, son of Elpaal who along with his brother Beriah were heads of their fathers houses in Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath. Probably the same as 'Shimhi'
- an Israelite who stood on the right hand of Ezra as he read the Law to the people
- וּבְנֵ֖י bên H1121 “and · sons of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- חֶבְר֑וֹן Chebrôwn H2275 “Hebron” Noun, Proper
- קֹ֥רַח Qôrach H7141 “Korah” Noun, Proper
- וְתַפֻּ֖חַ Tappûwach H8599 “and · Tappuah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְרֶ֥קֶם Reqem H7552 “and · Rekem” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וָשָֽׁמַע Shemaʻ H8087 “and · Shema” Conjunction + 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וָשָֽׁמַע Shema H8087 — 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:
- וָשָֽׁמַע Shema H8087
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וָשָֽׁמַע Shema H8087 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 6 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.
καί υἱός χεβρων κορε καί θαπους καί ρεκομ καί σεμαα
And the sons of Chebron; Core, and Thapphus, and Recom, and Samaa.
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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shemaʻ (“Shema”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Shema” (Shemaʻ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- The word “Shema” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 1 Chronicles 2:44 shares the word «Shema» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Keil & Delitzsch 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 6 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 2:43 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 →
John Gill's Exposition
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
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.)