הָעֲשִׂירִ֣י שִׁמְעִ֔י בָּנָ֥יו וְאֶחָ֖יו שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר
the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 25:17
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 25:17 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 tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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World English Bible Public Domain
the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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King James Version Public Domain
The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the tenth, Shimei, 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 tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the tenth to Shimei, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the tenth to Shimei, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
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King James Version Public Domain
The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The tenth, to Shimei, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The tenth to Semeias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
the tenth `to' Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the tenth, Shimei, his sons and his brothers—twelve:
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
the tenth fell to Shimei, his sons and his relatives, twelve persons in number;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the tenth, Shimei, his sons and his brothers, 12;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The tenth to Shimei; his sons and his brethren, twelve.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The tenth fell to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, 12 in total.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The tenth Shimei, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
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הָעֲשִׂירִ֣י
ʻăsîyrîy
H6224
“the · tenth”
Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 29× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 8:5
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Adjective
- Type
- Ordinal number
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
ordinal number
- a tenth
- הָעֲשִׂירִ֣י ʻăsîyrîy H6224 “the · tenth” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- שִׁמְעִ֔י Shimʻîy H8096 “Shimei” 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
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הָעֲשִׂירִ֣י tenth H6224 occurs in 26 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 δέκατος σεμεϊ υἱός αὐτός καί ἀδελφός αὐτός δέκα δύο
the tenth Semeia, 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 ʻăsîyrîy (“tenth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʻăsîyrîy carries the sense “tenth.” How does it shape the verse?
- Genesis 8:5 shares the word «tenth» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- 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
- 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 25:17 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.
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.