לַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֖י לַעְדָּ֥ן וְשִׁמְעִֽי
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 23:7
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 23:7 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
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the Gershonite: Ladan and Shimei.
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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
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Of the Gershonites; Ladan and Shimei.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the clans descended from Gershon, there were Ladan and Shimei.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of the Gershonite: Ladan and Shimei.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of the Gershonites, were, Laadan and Shimei.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Gershon: Ladan and Shimei.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Of the Gershonites: Ladan, and Shimei.
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לַעְדָּ֥ן
Laʻdân
H3936
“Laadan”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 7:26
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Laadan = "put in order"
- an Ephraimite ancestor of Joshua, son of Nun
- a Levite son of Gershom; also 'Libni'
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 →
- 3
- words
- 3
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לַעְדָּ֥ן Laadan H3936 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לַעְדָּ֥ן Laadan H3936 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 6 words from the Hebrew and 9 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.
Cross-references
4Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 23:7 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 26:21 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' [houses] belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
- Exodus 6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
- 1 Chronicles 6:17–20 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
- 1 Chronicles 15:7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
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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.
καί ὁ παροσωμ ὁ εδαν καί ὁ σεμεϊ
And for the family of Gedson, Edan, and Semei.
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 3 words (3 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Laʻdân (“Laadan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Laʻdân carries the sense “Laadan.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 1 Chronicles 7:26, which shares the word «Laadan», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Compare how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 3 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 3 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 23:7 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 →
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
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
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.)
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.