וַיַּ֤עַל דָּוִיד֙ בִּדְבַר גָּ֔ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר דִּבֶּ֖ר בְּשֵׁ֥ם יְהוָֽה
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 21:19
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 21:19 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
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.
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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
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.
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King James Version Public Domain
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
So David went up at the word of Gad who spoke in the name of Yahweh.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.
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King James Version Public Domain
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of Jehovah.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
So Dauid went vp according to the saying of Gad, which he had spoken in the Name of the Lord.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And David goeth up by the word of Gad, that he spake in the name of Jehovah.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And David goes up by the word of Gad, that he spoke in the Name of YHWH.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of Yahweh.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
So David went up at the word of Gad who spoke in the name of Yahweh.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of Jehovah.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
So David went and did what Gad had told him in the name of the Lord.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD.
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גָּ֔ד
Gâd
H1410
“Gad”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 72× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 30:11
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Gad = "troop"
- seventh son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and full brother of Asher.
- the tribe descended from Gad
- a prophet during the time of David; appears to have joined David when in the hold; reappears in connection with the punishment for taking a census; also assisted in the arrangements for the musical service of the " house of God"
- וַיַּ֤עַל ʻâlâh H5927 “and · to go up” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- דָּוִיד֙ Dâvid H1732 “David” Noun, Proper
- בִּדְבַר dâbâr H1697 “in/at · word of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- גָּ֔ד Gâd H1410 “Gad” Noun, Proper
- אֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- דִּבֶּ֖ר dâbar H1696 “to speak” Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- בְּשֵׁ֥ם shêm H8034 “in/at · name of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יְהוָֽה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” 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 →
- 8
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיַּ֤עַל Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- דִּבֶּ֖ר Piel · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 19 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 8 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.
Cross-references
3Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 21:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 5:10–14 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.
- John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."
- Acts 9:6 But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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 ἀναβαίνω δαυίδ κατά ὁ λόγος γαδ ὅς λαλέω ἐν ὄνομα κύριος
And David went up according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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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 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gâd (“Gad”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Gâd carries the sense “Gad.” How does it shape the verse?
- 2 Kings 5:10–14 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- 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?
- The verb «וַיַּ֤עַל» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 21:19 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.