1 Chronicles 2:49

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:49 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.
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She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
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  • 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
  • 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And she bore Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb Achsah. 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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    She was also the mother of Shaaph father of Madmannah, and of Sheva father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Acsah.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    She was also the mother of Shaaph father of Madmannah, and of Sheva father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb’s daughter was Acsah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    She bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and Sheua the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea. And Achsah was Calebs daughter.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Saaph the father of Madmena beget Sue the father of Machbena, and the father of Gabaa. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and she beareth Shaaph father of Madmannah, Sheva father of Machbenah, and father of Gibea; and a daughter of Caleb `is' Achsa.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and she bears Shaaph father of Madmannah, Sheva father of Machbenah, and father of Gibea; and a daughter of Caleb [is] Achsa.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Makbenah and the father of Gibea. The daughter of Caleb was Aksah. These were the descendants of Caleb.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And she bore Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb Achsah. ts\*
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and she bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    She was also the mother of Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and of Sheva, the father of Macbenah and Gibea. Caleb's daughter was Acsah.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the wife of Shaaph the father of Madmannah bore Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

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13
words
11
distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

  • מַכְבֵּנָ֖ה Machbenah H4343
  • גִבְעָ֑א Gibea H1388

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • מַכְבֵּנָ֖ה Machbenah H4343
  • גִבְעָ֑א Gibea H1388

Shared distinctive vocabulary

שַׁ֚עַף Shaaph H8174 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 11 nouns
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וַתֵּ֗לֶד Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • אֲבִ֣י father H1 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 26 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 17 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

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 2:49 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Joshua 15:31 and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
  • Joshua 15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
  • 2 Samuel 21:6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. The king said, I will give them.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:42 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
  • Isaiah 10:31 Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 2:49 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַתֵּ֗לֶד שַׁ֚עַף אֲבִ֣י מַדְמַנָּ֔ה אֶת שְׁוָ֛א אֲבִ֥י מַכְבֵּנָ֖ה וַאֲבִ֣י גִבְעָ֑א וּבַת כָּלֵ֖ב עַכְסָֽה

She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 2:49 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γεννάω σαγαφ πατήρ μαρμηνα καί ὁ σαου πατήρ μαχαβηνα καί πατήρ γαιβαα καί θυγάτηρ χαλεβ ασχα

She bore also Sagae the father of Madmena, and Sau the father of Machabena, and the father of Gaebal: and the daughter of Chaleb was Ascha.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 2:49 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

49. the daughter of Caleb was Achsah] The Caleb of Jdg_1:12 (who according to Jos_15:13-19 was Caleb son of Jephunneh) also had a daughter Achsah.

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Achsa, different from Axa, the grand-daughter of Jephone, Judges i. 12. (Haydock) --- Both had daughters of the same name. (Du Hamel)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Madmannah: this and divers other following names are the names of places in Judah, and

father is meant as 1Ch 2:23,24.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

Machbenah is an apax legomenon for Madmannah and (Jos_15:31, Jos_15:57) The last sentence of this verse is treated above.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Madmannah - This, and divers other following names are the names of places in Judah.

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And she bore Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea These two towns were his.

and Caleb’s daughter was Achsah Now he starts at the beginning, and begins with Achsah because she was Othniel’s wife, as is written there (Jos. 15:16, Jud. 1:12): “And Caleb said: ‘He that shall smite Kirjath Sepher, etc.’”

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.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Makbênâʼ (“Machbenah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Machbenah” (Makbênâʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. This verse holds 2 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
  3. 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  4. 1 Chronicles 2:47 shares the word «Shaaph» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  5. “father” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  6. 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?
  7. The verb «וַתֵּ֗לֶד» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  8. Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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 13 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
  • These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
  • “father” occurs 3× in this single verse.

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