בְּנֵ֥י גֵרְשׁ֖וֹם שְׁבוּאֵ֥ל הָרֹֽאשׁ
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 23:16
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 23:16 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
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel, the head.
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
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The descendants of Gershom: Shebuel was the first.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The descendants of Gershom: Shebuel was the first.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The sons of Gershom; Shebuel the chief.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of the sonnes of Gershom was Shebuel the chiefe.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The sons of Gersom: Subuel the first.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Gershom's descendant was Shubael the oldest.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel, the head.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Gershom; Shebuel was the chief.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel (chief).
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
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שְׁבוּאֵ֥ל
Shᵉbûwʼêl
H7619
“Shebuel”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Shebuel or Shubael = "captive of God"
- son of Gershom and grandson of Moses
- one of the 14 sons of Heman the musician
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 →
- 4
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שְׁבוּאֵ֥ל Shebuel H7619 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- שְׁבוּאֵ֥ל Shebuel H7619
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שְׁבוּאֵ֥ל Shebuel H7619 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 7 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 4 Hebrew tokens and 5 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 23:16 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 26:24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
- 1 Chronicles 24:20 Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
- 1 Chronicles 25:20 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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.
υἱός γηρσαμ σουβαηλ ὁ ἄρχων
The sons of Gersam; Subael the chief.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 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 →
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 4 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shᵉbûwʼêl (“Shebuel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Shebuel” (Shᵉbûwʼêl) shape what this verse is saying?
- This is the first place “Shebuel” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does 1 Chronicles 24:20, which shares the word «Shebuel», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 4 Hebrew ↔ 5 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 4 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 23:16 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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
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
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
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.)