1 Chronicles 2:45

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.

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שַׁמַּ֖י

Shammay

H8060

“Shammai”

Noun, Proper

Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 2:28

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H8073

TWOT: None

Shammai = "desolate" - a Judaite, son of Onam and descendant of Jerahmeel - a Judaite, son of Rekem, father of Maon, and descendant of Jerahmeel's brother, Caleb - a Judaite, son of Mered and brother of Miriam and Ishbah

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 →

7: words
5: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is שַׁמַּ֖י Shammai H8060 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שַׁמַּ֖י Shammai H8060 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מָע֑וֹן Maon H4584 ×2
בֵֽית Beth-zur H1049 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 8 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 2:45 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 15:58 Halhul, Beth Zur, and Gedor,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 2:45 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבֶן שַׁמַּ֖י מָע֑וֹן וּמָע֖וֹן אֲבִ֥י בֵֽית צֽוּר

The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.

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Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 2:45 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός αὐτός μαων καί μαων πατήρ βαιθσουρ

And his son was Maon: and Maon is the father of Baethsur.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 2:45 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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Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ch 2:45. The father of Beth-zur — A place in Judah, (Jos 15:58,) of which this Maon was the founder. The same is the meaning of the word father in several of the following verses. Madmannah, Machbenah, Gibea, &c, being the names not of persons, but of places.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

45. Maon] Nabal who was a Calebite lived at the town of Maon (1Sa_25:2-3). It is improbable that Maon was ever used as the name of a person; cp. Buchanan Gray, Hebrew Proper Names, pp. 127, 8. See note on 1Ch_2:42.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Shobal, the father of Kirjathjearim had sons,.... Which shows that Kirjathjearim is not the name of a man, or of any of Shobal's sons, who are next mentioned, but of a place of which he was prince: the first is

Haroeh, who is called Reaiah, Ch1 4:2 a word of the same signification:

and half of the Manahethites; which Kimchi takes to be the proper name of a man called Chatzihamanaheth, another son of Shobal's; but Jarchi interprets it of the name of a place or province called Manahath, Ch1 8:6 over half of which Haroeh was governor.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

A place in Judah, Jos 15:58, See Poole on "1Ch 2:23".

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Beth-zur - A place in Judah.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

And Shobal, the father of Kirjathjearim had sons,.... Which shows that Kirjathjearim is not the name of a man, or of any of Shobal's sons, who are next mentioned, but of a place of which he was prince: the first is

Haroeh, who is called Reaiah, Ch1 4:2 a word of the same signification:

and half of the Manahethites; which Kimchi takes to be the proper name of a man called Chatzihamanaheth, another son of Shobal's; but Jarchi interprets it of the name of a place or province called Manahath, Ch1 8:6 over half of which Haroeh was governor.

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.)

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

All of the names here except Ephah are the names of men. Ephah is the name of a woman. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

concubine

Jotham

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Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shammay (“Shammai”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Shammai” (Shammay) shape what this verse is saying?
1 Chronicles 2:28 shares the word «Shammai» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“Maon” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Joseph Benson's Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
“Maon” occurs 2× in this single verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.