1 Chronicles 26:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.

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וְלִמְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֗הוּ

Mᵉshelemyâh

H4920

“and · to/for · Meshelemiah”

Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Chronicles 9:21

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7999 and H3050

TWOT: None

Meshelemiah = "whom Jehovah repays" - a Korhite Levite porter or gatekeeper of the house of God in the time of David

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 וְלִמְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֗הוּ Meshelemiah H4920 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְלִמְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֗הוּ Meshelemiah H4920 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
2 adjectives

Repetition

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

בָּנִ֧ים son H1121 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 8 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 26:9 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 26:14 The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
1 Chronicles 26:1 For the divisions of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

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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.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 26:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלִמְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֗הוּ בָּנִ֧ים וְאַחִ֛ים בְּנֵי חָ֖יִל שְׁמוֹנָ֥ה עָשָֽׂר

Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, valiant men, eighteen.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 26:9 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ μοσολλαμια υἱός καί ἀδελφός δέκα καί ὀκτώ δυνατός

And Mosellemia had eighteen sons and brethren, mighty men.

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 26:9 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

9. Meshelemiah] Cp. 1Ch_26:1-3 to which 1Ch_26:9 is a supplement.

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.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(9) And Meshelemiah.—This goes back to 1Ch_26:2, and forms a kind of supplement to the statement there. The Korhite (Kohathite) porters make a total of 80 families; viz., 62 of Obed-edom, and 18 of Meshelemiah.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen,.... He had seven sons, Ch1 26:1 and therefore must have eleven brethren or kinsmen.

and therefore must have eleven brethren or kinsmen.

1 Chronicles 26:10

ch1 26:10

ch1 26:10

ch1 26:10Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons,.... Who was a fellow porter of Obededom's at the ark, Ch1 16:38.

Simri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief); the firstborn being unfit for service, either through want of an intellectual capacity, or of strength of body, or through some defect or another; according to the Syriac version, he was dead; so some understand the words, he, the father, had no firstborn remaining or living.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

This somewhat sudden return to the name of Meshelemiah is evidently in order to put his numbers in a convenient position, to be added to those of Obed-edom just stated, thus making in all eighty porters from the Korabites.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen,.... He had seven sons, Ch1 26:1 and therefore must have eleven brethren or kinsmen.

and therefore must have eleven brethren or kinsmen.

1 Chronicles 26:10

ch1 26:10

ch1 26:10

ch1 26:10Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons,.... Who was a fellow porter of Obededom's at the ark, Ch1 16:38.

Simri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief); the firstborn being unfit for service, either through want of an intellectual capacity, or of strength of body, or through some defect or another; according to the Syriac version, he was dead; so some understand the words, he, the father, had no firstborn remaining or living.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉshelemyâh (“Meshelemiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Meshelemiah” (Mᵉshelemyâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
1 Chronicles 9:21 shares the word «Meshelemiah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
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 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.