וְשֶׁ֣מַע הוֹלִ֔יד אֶת רַ֖חַם אֲבִ֣י יָרְקֳעָ֑ם וְרֶ֖קֶם הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת שַׁמָּֽי
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 2:44
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:44 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
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
Highlights
- 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 2 first appearances 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
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem fathered Shammai. ts\*
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
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Shema was the father of Raham the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Shema was the father of Raham the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begat Shammai.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begat Shammai.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Shema begate Raham the father of Iorkoam: and Rekem begate Shammai.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Samma beget Raham, the father of Jercaam, and Recem beget Sammai.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And Shema begat Raham father of Jorkoam, and Rekem begat Shammai.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And Shema begot Raham father of Jorkoam, and Rekem begot Shammai.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam. Rekem became the father of Shammai.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem fathered Shammai. ts\*
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem begot Shammai;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Shema was the father of Raham, and Raham the father of Jorkeam. Rekem was the father of Shammai.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begot Shammai.
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רַ֖חַם
Racham
H7357
“Raham”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Raham = "belly"
- a Judaite, son of Shema, father of Jorkoam, and of the descendants of Caleb
- וְשֶׁ֣מַע Shemaʻ H8087 “and · Shema” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֔יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- רַ֖חַם Racham H7357 “Raham” Noun, Proper
- אֲבִ֣י ʼâb H1 “father of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יָרְקֳעָ֑ם Yorqᵉʻâm H3421 “Jorkoam” Noun, Proper
- וְרֶ֖קֶם Reqem H7552 “and · Rekem” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֥יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- שַׁמָּֽי Shammay H8060 “Shammai” 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 →
- 10
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְשֶׁ֣מַע Shema H8087 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 6 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- הוֹלִ֔יד Hiphil · Perfect
- הוֹלִ֥יד Hiphil · Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- הוֹלִ֔יד to bear H3205 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 12 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) 12 words vs World English Bible 17. 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 σεμαα γεννάω ὁ ραεμ πατήρ ιερκααν καί ιερκααν γεννάω ὁ σαμαι
And Samaa begot Raem the father of Jeclan: and Jeclan begot Samai.
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 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Racham (“Raham”). 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 Racham carries the sense “Raham.” How does it shape the verse?
- 2 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does 1 Chronicles 2:43, which shares the word «Shema», 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?
- 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?
- «הוֹלִ֔יד» is a Hiphil Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Things to notice
- 2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “to bear” occurs 2× in this single verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 2:44 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.)
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.