בְּנֵ֖י עֻזִּיאֵ֑ל מִיכָ֣ה הָרֹ֔אשׁ וְיִשִּׁיָּ֖ה הַשֵּׁנִֽי
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 23:20
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 23:20 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 Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
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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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first and Jesiah the second.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Uzziel: Micah, the head, and Isshiah, the second.
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 Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel: Micah was the first and Isshiah the second.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel: Micah was the first and Isshiah the second.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first and Jesiah the second.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel; Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sones of Vzziel were Michah the first, and Isshiah the second.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The sons of Oziel: Micha the first, Jesia the second.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Uzziel: Micah the head, and Ishshiah, the second.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Sons of Uzziel: Micah the head, and Ishshiah the second.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Uzziel's sons were Micah the oldest, and Ishijah the second.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Uzziel: Micah, the head, and Isshiah, the second.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the head, and Jishijah the second.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first, and Jesiah the second.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Uzziel: Micah (chief) and Isshiah (second).
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
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וְיִשִּׁיָּ֖ה
Yishshîyâh
H3449
“and · Ishiah”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 7:3
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ishiah or Ishijah or Jesiah = "Jehovah will lend"
- a Korhite, one of David's mighty warriors who joined him at Ziklag
- the 5th of 5 sons of Izrahiah and one of the heads of the tribe of Issachar in the time of David
- a Levite, the 2nd son of Uzziel and grandson of Kohath
- another Levite, son of Rehabiah
- a descendant of Harim who had a foreign wife
- בְּנֵ֖י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- עֻזִּיאֵ֑ל ʻUzzîyʼêl H5816 “Uzziel” Noun, Proper
- מִיכָ֣ה Mîykâh H4318 “Micah” Noun, Proper
- הָרֹ֔אשׁ rôʼsh H7218 “the · head” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְיִשִּׁיָּ֖ה Yishshîyâh H3449 “and · Ishiah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הַשֵּׁנִֽי shênîy H8145 “the · second” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְיִשִּׁיָּ֖ה Ishiah H3449 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְיִשִּׁיָּ֖ה Ishiah H3449 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 11 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 9 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.
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 οζιηλ μιχας ὁ ἄρχων καί ισια ὁ δεύτερος
The sons of Oziel; Micha the chief, and Isia the second.
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 →
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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yishshîyâh (“Ishiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Yishshîyâh carries the sense “Ishiah.” How does it shape the verse?
- 1 Chronicles 7:3 shares the word «Ishiah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 23:20 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 →
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.
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.