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1 Chronicles 2:52

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 2:52 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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1 Chronicles 2:52 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-chronicles/2/52.

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Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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  • 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
  • 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Shobal, the father of Kiriath Jearim, were Haroeh, half of Menuhoth,

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    These were the descendants of Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim: Haroeh, half the Manahathites,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    These were the descendants of Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim: Haroeh, half the Manahathites,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim had sonnes, and he was the ouerseer of halfe Hammenoth.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And Sobal the father of Cariathiarim had sons: he that saw half of the places of rest.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And there are sons to Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim: Haroeh, half of the Menuhothite;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And there are sons to Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim: Haroeh, half of the Menuhothite;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had descendants: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Shobal, the father of Kiriath Jearim, were Haroeh, half of Menuhoth,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, Hazi-Hammenuhoth.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The descendants of Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim were: Haroeh, half the Manahathites,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, and half of the Menuhoth.

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Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

  • הָרֹאֶ֖ה Haroeh H7204

First appearance in Scripture

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

  • הָרֹאֶ֖ה Haroeh H7204
  • חֲצִ֥י Manahethites H2679

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 8 nouns

Verb forms

  • וַיִּהְי֤וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • קִרְיַ֣ת Kirjath-jearim H7157 ×2
  • חֲצִ֥י Manahethites H2679 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 9 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.

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 2:52 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:2 Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 2:52 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּהְי֤וּ בָנִים֙ לְשׁוֹבָ֔ל אֲבִ֖י קִרְיַ֣ת יְעָרִ֑ים הָרֹאֶ֖ה חֲצִ֥י הַמְּנֻחֽוֹת

Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 2:52 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἰμί υἱός ὁ σωβαλ πατήρ καριαθιαριμ αραα εσι αμμανιθ

And the sons of Sobal the father of Cariathiarim were Araa, and Aesi, and Ammanith,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 2:52 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, he that saw the half, because the prince ought to oversee his subjects.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 52. Shobal - had sons] "Disciples and priests, to whom belonged the half of the oblations." - T.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

52. Haroeh and half of the Manahethites] R.V. Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. If the text be sound, render, Who provided for half the resting-places, the description applying to Shobal, whose work apparently was to supervise some of the halting-stations of the caravans which passed through the territory of Judah. Cp. similar details in 1Ch_4:21-23. Seraiah (Jer_51:59), who accompanied king Zedekiah to Babylon, bore the title of Prince of the resting-places, doubtless because he was entrusted with the duty of selecting the halting-places on the king’s journey. Some however would read Reaiah as in 1Ch_4:2, and would find the name of another son concealed in the phrase half of the Manahethites (Menuhoth); cp. 1Ch_2:54, where however the Heb. word is different.

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

He that saw, &c. The Latin interpreter seems to have given us here, instead of the proper names, the meaning of those names in the Hebrew. He has done in like manner, ver. 55., (Challoner) and in many other places. (Du Hamel) --- Hebrew, "had sons, haroe cha hamenuchoth, (Haydock) or Raia, Roeh, (chap. iv. 2.) and Chazi of the canton of Menuchat, near Babaa, chap. viii. 6., and Judges xx. 43. Septuagint mention Manocho, Josue xv. 60. --- We may also translate "the father of Cariathiarim, the prince of half Manuchat, had sons who peopled different cities." It seems too harsh to call a man "half the place of rest," or "seeing from the moiety of rest," though the Hebrew has this literal signification. The Septuagint give proper names, (Calmet) "Araa, Esei, Ammanith," (but [in] ver. 55, half of Manath) and the Protestants, "Haroeh and half of the Manahattites." (Haydock) --- Sobal left to his descendants half the country which he had quietly occupied.

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

Haroeh; which may signify an overseer, a prophet, or teacher, or ruler; but here is a proper name, as appears from 1Ch 4:2, where he is called Reaiah, with no great variation in the Hebrew.

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

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General Information:

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Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim

Shobal is the name of a man, and Kiriath Jearim is the name of a town. See how you translated this in 1 Chronicles 2:50. (See: How to Translate Names)

Manahathites ... Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites ... Mishraites ... Zorathites ... Eshtaolites

These are the names of clans.

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people group

clan

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Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

who ruled over half the Menuhoth There was a province in the land named Menuhoth, as it is written (8:6): “... and they exiled them to Manahath,” and he ruled over half the province. Further it is stated, who ruled over the other half of the province. who ruled הָרֹאֶה, pour maire du pays in French, as ruler over the land.

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.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Rôʼêh (“Haroeh”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Rôʼêh carries the sense “Haroeh.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
  3. 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  4. 1 Chronicles 4:2 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
  5. “Kirjath-jearim” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  6. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  7. The verb «וַיִּהְי֤וּ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  8. Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

  • 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
  • 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
  • This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
  • These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
  • “Kirjath-jearim” occurs 2× in this single verse.

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