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1 Chronicles 23:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 23:8 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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1 Chronicles 23:8 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-chronicles/23/8.

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The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
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  • 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel, the head, and Zetham and Joel—three.

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
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the first, Zetham, and Joel—three in all.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the first, Zetham, and Joel—three in all.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    The sons of Ladan; Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    The sonnes of Laadan, the chiefe was Iehiel, and Zetham and Ioel, three.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and Zethan, and Joel, three.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Sons of Laadan: the head `is' Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Sons of Laadan: the head [is] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel—three.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    There were three of Ladan's sons: Jehiel the leader, Zetham, and Joel.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel, the head, and Zetham and Joel—three.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Laadan: the head was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Laadan: the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel (chief), and Zetham, and Joel, three in total.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and Joel, three.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

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distinct lemmas
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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְזֵתָ֥ם Zetham H2241 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • וְזֵתָ֥ם Zetham H2241

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְזֵתָ֥ם Zetham H2241 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 6 nouns
  • 1 adjective

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 13 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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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 7 Hebrew tokens and 11 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.

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 23:8 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 6:33–34 These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
  • 1 Chronicles 15:7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
  • 1 Chronicles 15:11 David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
  • 1 Chronicles 15:17–18 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
  • 1 Chronicles 15:20–21 and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 23:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֣י לַעְדָּ֗ן הָרֹ֧אשׁ יְחִיאֵ֛ל וְזֵתָ֥ם וְיוֹאֵ֖ל שְׁלֹשָֽׁה

The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 23:8 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός ὁ εδαν ὁ ἄρχων ιιηλ καί ζεθομ καί ιωηλ τρεῖς

The sons of Edan were Jeiel, the chief, and Zethan, and Joel, three.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 23:8 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(8) The sons of Laadan.—These are named in two groups: viz., first, the three mentioned in this verse; secondly, the three named in 1Ch_23:9, and called “sons of Shimei.” This Shimei is not the same as the Shimei of 1Ch_23:7, whose sub-divisions are not given till 1Ch_23:10.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

The sons of Shimei,.... Not him that was the son of Gershon, but a descendant of Laadan, his son, as Kimchi observes:

Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, these were the chief of the fathers of Laadan; of the families that sprang from him.

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

Chief, head of the rest; (Haydock) or all these three were chiefs, (Junius) no less than the sons of Semei, ver. 9.

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).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

The sons of Laadan, i.e. his posterity; and so in the following verses; for these could not be their immediate sons.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

This verse contains the names of the three so-called sons of Laadan, but (1Ch_26:22) the last two appear to have been grandsons.

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

The sons of Shimei,.... Not him that was the son of Gershon, but a descendant of Laadan, his son, as Kimchi observes:

Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, these were the chief of the fathers of Laadan; of the families that sprang from him.

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.)

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Zêthâm (“Zetham”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Zêthâm carries the sense “Zetham.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. The word “Zetham” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. 1 Chronicles 26:22 shares the word «Zetham» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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