1 Chronicles 22:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 22:15 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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There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And with you to abundance doers of work: cutters and craftsmen of stone and wood, and all wise in all work

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
    There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    You also have many workers: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and men skilled in every kind of work—
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    You also have many workers: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and men skilled in every kind of work—
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all men that are skilful in every manner of work:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all men that are cunning in any manner of work;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Moreouer thou hast workmen with thee enough, hewers of stone, and workemen for timber, and all men expert in euery worke.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Thou hast also workmen in abundance, hewers of stones, and masons, and carpenters, and of all trades the most skilful in their work,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And with thee in abundance `are' workmen, hewers and artificers of stone and of wood, and every skilful man for every work.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And with you in abundance [are] workmen, hewers and craftsmen of stone and of wood, and every skillful man for every work.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    You have many workmen with you: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and skillful craftsmen without number of every kind,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And with you to abundance doers of work: cutters and craftsmen of stone and wood, and all wise in all work
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of skilful men for every kind of work.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    There are also workmen with you in abundance—cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Moreover, there are workmen with thee in great numbers, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of skillful men for every manner of work.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    I have also provided timber and stone, but you will need to add more.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all men that are skilful in any manner of work;

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חֹצְבִ֕ים
châtsab
H2672
“hewing”
Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Verb
Stem
Qal
Form
Participle Active
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 718

to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason - (Qal) - to hew out, dig - to hew - stone - wood - to hew in pieces (metaphorically) - to divide, cleave - (Niphal) to be cut, be hewn, be engraved - (Hiphil) to hew into pieces, cut up into pieces - (Pual) to be cut from, be hewn from
  1. וְעִמְּךָ֤ ʻim H5973 “and · with · you” Conjunction + Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. לָרֹב֙ rôb H7230 “to/for · multitude” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
  3. עֹשֵׂ֣י ʻâsâh H6213 “doing” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  4. מְלָאכָ֔ה mᵉlâʼkâh H4399 “work” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  5. וְחָרָשֵׁ֥י chârâsh H2796 “and · craftsmen of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  6. אֶ֖בֶן ʼeben H68 “stone” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  7. וָעֵ֑ץ ʻêts H6086 “and · tree” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וְכָל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. חָכָ֖ם châkâm H2450 “wise” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. בְּכָל kôl H3605 “in/at · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  11. מְלָאכָֽה mᵉlâʼkâh H4399 “work” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

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 →

12
words
10
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חֹצְבִ֕ים to hew H2672 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חֹצְבִ֕ים to hew H2672 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 8 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • עֹשֵׂ֣י Qal · Participle Active
  • חֹצְבִ֕ים Qal · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • מְלָאכָ֔ה work H4399 ×2
  • וְכָל all H3605 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 28 words from the Hebrew and 30 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 20 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 22:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 28:6 "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
  • Exodus 31:3–5 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
  • Exodus 35:32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,
  • Exodus 35:35 He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
  • 1 Kings 7:14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 22:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעִמְּךָ֤ לָרֹב֙ עֹשֵׂ֣י מְלָאכָ֔ה חֹצְבִ֕ים וְחָרָשֵׁ֥י אֶ֖בֶן וָעֵ֑ץ וְכָל חָכָ֖ם בְּכָל מְלָאכָֽה

There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 22:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί μετά σύ εἰς πλῆθος ποιέω ἔργον τεχνίτης καί οἰκοδόμος λίθος καί τέκτων ξύλον καί πᾶς σοφός ἐν πᾶς ἔργον

And of them that are with you do you add to the multitude of workmen; let there be artificers and masons, and carpenters, and every skillful workman in every work;

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 22:15 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, masons and carpenters.

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

15. all manner of cunning men for every manner of work] R.V. all men that are cunning in any manner of work.

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

Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron,.... That is, the cunning artificers were skilful to work in each of these, some in gold and silver, others in brass and iron:

there is no number; either of the workmen, or of these materials; which yet must be restrained to the brass and iron, for the gold and silver are numbered, but not the brass and iron, Ch1 22:14,

arise therefore, and be doing: not that he should set about and begin the building the temple directly; but as soon as he could after he came to the throne, and not neglect and delay it:

and the Lord be with thee; as in Ch1 22:11 and here, as there, the Targum is,"may the Word of the Lord be thy help.''

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

The Pulpit Commentary

So too 1Ch_28:21; 2Ch_2:7, 2Ch_2:17, 2Ch_2:18; as well as vers. 2-4 of the present chapter.

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

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron,.... That is, the cunning artificers were skilful to work in each of these, some in gold and silver, others in brass and iron:

there is no number; either of the workmen, or of these materials; which yet must be restrained to the brass and iron, for the gold and silver are numbered, but not the brass and iron, Ch1 22:14,

arise therefore, and be doing: not that he should set about and begin the building the temple directly; but as soon as he could after he came to the throne, and not neglect and delay it:

and the Lord be with thee; as in Ch1 22:11 and here, as there, the Targum is,"may the Word of the Lord be thy help.''

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

Connecting Statement:

David continues speaking to Solomon.

stonecutters, masons

These are both workers who cut stone and prepare it for builders to use in walls and buildings.

carpenters

persons who work with wood

skillful craftsmen without number of every kind

Here "without number" is an exaggeration to emphasize that there were a large number of them. AT: "a very large number of every kind of skillful craftsmen" (See: Hyperbole and Generalization)

may Yahweh be with you

This is an idiom that implies that Yahweh will help Solomon be successful in the project. (See: Idiom)

translationWords

Yahweh

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châtsab (“to hew”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “to hew” (châtsab) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Deuteronomy 6:11, which shares the word «to hew», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “work” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «עֹשֵׂ֣י» is a Qal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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