1 Chronicles 23:21

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

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וּמוּשִׁ֔י

Mûwshîy

H4187

“and · Mushi”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 6:19

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4184

TWOT: None

Mushi = "yielding" - son of Merari, grandson of Kohath, and great grandson of Levi

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
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּמוּשִׁ֔י Mushi H4187 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּמוּשִׁ֔י Mushi H4187 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בְּנֵ֤י son H1121 ×2
מַחְלִ֣י Mahli H4249 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 14 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 8 Hebrew tokens and 10 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 23:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
1 Chronicles 6:20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
1 Chronicles 6:30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
1 Chronicles 23:6 David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 24:26–30 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 23:21 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֤י מְרָרִי֙ מַחְלִ֣י וּמוּשִׁ֔י בְּנֵ֥י מַחְלִ֖י אֶלְעָזָ֥ר וְקִֽישׁ

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

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Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 23:21 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός μεραρι μοολι καί μουσι υἱός μοολι ελεαζαρ καί κις

The sons of Merari; Mooli, and Musi: the sons of Mooli; Eleazar, and Kis.

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 23:21 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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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

OF MERARI. (Ch1 23:21-23)

The sons of Merari--They comprised six fathers' houses. Summing them together, Gershon founded nine fathers houses, Kohath nine, and Merari six: total, twenty-four.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(21) The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi.—See Exo_6:19, and Num_3:33, and 1Ch_6:19.

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

21. The sons of Merari] Cp. 1Ch_24:26.

The sons of Mahli] Cp. 1Ch_24:28-29.

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

This and the following two verses give the houses of Merari, contributing four houses, and, with the nine Gershonite and eleven Kohathite, adding up to twenty-four. Merari is the third son of Levi. (Gen_46:11) The Mahli and Mushi of this verse were possibly grandson and son of Merari, if we follow the guidance of 1Ch_6:47. Yet it would seem far more natural to explain this last-quotedpassage by our ver. 23, which would then parallel it. Otherwise we must account for the name of Mahli habitually standing first, as here, as in 1Ch_6:19 also, and 1Ch_24:26, as also in Exodus Num_3:20, Num_3:33, etc.; in all of which places the statement is as distinct as in this verse, that Mahli and Mushi were sons. This and the following verse must be compared particularly with. 1Ch_24:26-29; the Jaaziah of which passage was evidently no son of Merari, on a par with Mahli and Mushi, but a later descendant. His descendants were three Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri (Beno being no proper name, but signifying "his son

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

This continues the list of Levites according to their clans. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

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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 8 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mûwshîy (“Mushi”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Mûwshîy carries the sense “Mushi.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Exodus 6:19, which shares the word «Mushi», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
Compare how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.