1 Chronicles 24:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.

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Highlights

2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וְשֹׁ֥הַם

Shôham

H7719

“and · onyx”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H7718

TWOT: None

Shoham = "onyx" - a Merarite Levite, son of Jaaziah

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 →

7: words
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

וְשֹׁ֥הַם onyx H7719
וְעִבְרִֽי Ibri H5681

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וְשֹׁ֥הַם onyx H7719
וְעִבְרִֽי Ibri H5681

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לְיַֽעֲזִיָּ֣הֽוּ Jaaziah H3269 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

1 Chronicles 24:26

Grammatical profile

7 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בְּנֵ֖י son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 16 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.

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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 24:27 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.
Numbers 3:20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
1 Chronicles 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
1 Chronicles 23:21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

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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.

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 24:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בְּנֵ֖י מְרָרִ֑י לְיַֽעֲזִיָּ֣הֽוּ בְנ֔וֹ וְשֹׁ֥הַם וְזַכּ֖וּר וְעִבְרִֽי

The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 24:27 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός μεραρι ὁ οζια υἱός αὐτός ισοαμ καί ζακχουρ καί αβδι

That is, the sons of Merari by Ozia, —his sons were Isoam, and Sacchur, and Abai.

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 24:27 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

(27) Shoham (onyx) and Ibri (Hebrew) do not occur as individual names elsewhere, but there is no reason to doubt their genuineness.

Some commentators pronounce 1Ch_24:26-27, spurious, against the evidence of the ancient versions.

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

27. by Jaaziah; Beno and Shoham] Translate (with a slight emendation of the Heb. text): by Jaaziah his son: Shoham. Three families traced their descent from Merari through Jaaziah.

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.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Beno; whose name is here repeated with his brethren, because he was the first-born and head of the rest, who were all reckoned with and under his family, as if they had been branches of it.

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

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

Discussion questions

How does “onyx” (Shôham) shape what this verse is saying?
This verse holds 2 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
1 Chronicles 24:26 shares the word «Jaaziah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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

2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.