לְמַחְלִי֙ אֶלְעָזָ֔ר וְלֹא הָ֥יָה ל֖וֹ בָּנִֽים
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 24:28
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 24:28 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 Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of Mahli, Eleazar; but sons were not to him.
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
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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King James Version Public Domain
Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Of Mahli; Eleazar, who had no sons.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Of Mahli came Eleazar, which had no sonnes.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the son of Moholi: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
For Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Of Mahli, Eleazar; but sons were not to him.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From Mahli: Eleazar, who did not have any sons.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
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לְמַחְלִי֙
Machlîy
H4249
“to/for · Mahli”
Preposition + Noun, Proper
- Appears 12× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 6:19
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Mahli = "sick"
- son of Merari and grandson of Levi; progenitor of the family of the Mahlites
- son of Mushi, grandson of Merari, and great grandson of Levi
- לְמַחְלִי֙ Machlîy H4249 “to/for · Mahli” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- אֶלְעָזָ֔ר ʼElʻâzâr H499 “Eleazar” Noun, Proper
- וְלֹא lôʼ H3808 “and · not” Conjunction + Particle, Negative
- הָ֥יָה hâyâh H1961 “to be” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- בָּנִֽים bên H1121 “sons” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, 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
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לְמַחְלִי֙ Mahli H4249 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לְמַחְלִי֙ Mahli H4249 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 3 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- הָ֥יָה Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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
1Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 24:28 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 23:22 Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife].
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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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 14 words vs World English Bible 7. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὁ μοολι ελεαζαρ καί ιθαμαρ καί ἀποθνήσκω ελεαζαρ καί οὐ εἰμί αὐτός υἱός
To Mooli were born Eleazar, and Ithamar; and Eleazar died, and had no sons.
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 (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Machlîy (“Mahli”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Machlîy carries the sense “Mahli.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does Exodus 6:19, which shares the word «Mahli», read alongside this verse?
- The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «הָ֥יָה» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 24:28 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.