1 Chronicles 21:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath of it.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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נְדָנָֽהּ

nâdân

H5084

“sheath · her”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of uncertain derivation

TWOT: 1306

sheath

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
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

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

נְדָנָֽהּ sheath H5084

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

נְדָנָֽהּ sheath H5084

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיָּ֥שֶׁב Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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 13 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 21:27 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 21:15–16 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Psalms 103:20 Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, Who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, Obeying the voice of his word.
Jeremiah 47:6 You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
Ezekiel 21:30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
Matthew 26:52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.
John 18:11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"
Hebrews 1:14 Aren't they all ministering spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
2 Samuel 24:16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
1 Chronicles 21:20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 21:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ לַמַּלְאָ֔ךְ וַיָּ֥שֶׁב חַרְבּ֖וֹ אֶל נְדָנָֽהּ

Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath of it.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 21:27 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον κύριος πρός ὁ ἄγγελος καί κατατίθημι ὁ ῥομφαία εἰς ὁ κολεός

And the Lord spoke to the angel; and he put up the sword into its sheath.

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 21:27 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

(27) He put up . . .—It seems hardly fair to call this verse a “figurative or poetical expression for the cessation of the plague.” In 1Ch_21:16 David sees the angel with drawn sword; and the older text (2Sa_24:16-17) equally makes the angel a “real concrete being,” and not a “personification,” as Reuss will have it.

Sheath (nâdân).—A word only found here. A very similar term is applied to the body as the sheath of the soul in Dan_7:15; viz., the Aramaic, nidneh, which should, perhaps, be read here.

1Ch_21:28 to 1Ch_22:1. These concluding remarks are not read in Samuel, but the writer, no doubt, found some basis for them in his special source. They tell us how it was that Oman’s threshingfloor became recognised as a permanent sanctuary, and the site ordained for the future Temple. They thus form a transition to the account of David’s preparations for the building (1Ch_22:2-19).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

angel

(See Scofield "Heb 1:4").

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And the Lord commanded the angel to return his sword, and the sword was returned to its sheath. Similar to this is (Jonah 2:11): “And the Lord said to the fish, and it spewed Jonah, 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.

Lesson kit

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

Discussion questions

How does “sheath” (nâdân) shape what this verse is saying?
1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
This is the first place “sheath” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
How does 1 Chronicles 21:15–16, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
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?
«וַיֹּ֤אמֶר» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and Scofield Reference Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.