הַחֲמִישִׁ֣י נְתַנְיָ֔הוּ בָּנָ֥יו וְאֶחָ֖יו שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 25:12
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 25:12 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
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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World English Bible Public Domain
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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King James Version Public Domain
The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the fifth Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, 12;
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
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
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King James Version Public Domain
The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The fift, to Nethaniah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The fifth to Nathania, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
the fifth `to' Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the fifth, Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers—twelve;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
the fifth fell to Nethaniah, his sons and his relatives, twelve persons in number;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the fifth Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, 12;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The fifth to Nethaniah; his sons and his brethren, twelve.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, 12 in total.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The fifth Nethaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
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נְתַנְיָ֔הוּ
Nᵉthanyâh
H5418
“Nethaniah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 20× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Kings 25:23
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Nethaniah = "given of Jehovah"
- son of Elishama of the royal family of Judah and father of Ishmael who murdered Gedaliah
- father of Jehudi
- a Levite, one of the 4 sons of Asaph the minstrel
- a Levite in the reign of king Jehoshaphat of Judah
- הַחֲמִישִׁ֣י chămîyshîy H2549 “the · fifth” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- נְתַנְיָ֔הוּ Nᵉthanyâh H5418 “Nethaniah” Noun, Proper
- בָּנָ֥יו bên H1121 “sons · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְאֶחָ֖יו ʼâch H251 “and · brothers · his” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שְׁנֵ֥ים shᵉnayim H8147 “two” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Absolute
- עָשָֽׂר ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, 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
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נְתַנְיָ֔הוּ Nethaniah H5418 — appearing just 20 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נְתַנְיָ֔הוּ Nethaniah H5418 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 3 adjectives
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 10 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.
In the original languages it is 6 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.
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.
ὁ πέμπτος ναθανιας υἱός αὐτός καί ἀδελφός αὐτός δέκα δύο
the fifth Nathan, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
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 (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nᵉthanyâh (“Nethaniah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Nethaniah” (Nᵉthanyâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does 2 Kings 25:23, which shares the word «Nethaniah», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Rashi read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 25:12 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 →
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.