לְאַרְבָּעָ֤ה עָשָׂר֙ מַתִּתְיָ֔הוּ בָּנָ֥יו וְאֶחָ֖יו שְׁנֵ֥ים עָשָֽׂר
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 25:21
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 25:21 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
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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King James Version Public Domain
The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, 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
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the fourteenth to Mattithiah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the fourteenth to Mattithiah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;
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King James Version Public Domain
The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The fourtenth, to Mattithiah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The fourteenth to Mathathias, to his sons and his brethren twelve.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
at the fourteenth `to' Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers—twelve;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
the fourteenth fell to Mattithiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve persons in number;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, 12;
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The fourteenth to Mattithiah; his sons and his brethren, twelve.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The fourteenth fell to Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, 12 in total.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The fourteenth Mattithiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
For the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve;
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מַתִּתְיָ֔הוּ
Mattithyâh
H4993
“Mattithiah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 9:31
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Mattithiah = "gift of Jehovah"
- a Levite who presided over the offerings
- a Levite appointed by David to minister in the musical service before the ark
- one of the family of Nebo who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
- one of the men who stood at the right hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people
- לְאַרְבָּעָ֤ה ʼarbaʻ H702 “to/for · four” Preposition + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- עָשָׂר֙ ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- מַתִּתְיָ֔הוּ Mattithyâh H4993 “Mattithiah” 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 →
- 7
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מַתִּתְיָ֔הוּ Mattithiah H4993 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מַתִּתְיָ֔הוּ Mattithiah H4993 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 4 adjectives
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- עָשָׂר֙ teen H6240 ×2
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 7 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 οςτεσσαρεσκαιδέκατ ματταθιας υἱός αὐτός καί ἀδελφός αὐτός δέκα δύο
the fourteenth Matthathias, 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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mattithyâh (“Mattithiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Mattithyâh carries the sense “Mattithiah.” How does it shape the verse?
- How does 1 Chronicles 9:31, which shares the word «Mattithiah», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “teen” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- 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?
- Compare how The Pulpit Commentary and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “teen” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 25:21 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 →
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — 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.