וְעַ֗ל עֹשֵׂי֙ מְלֶ֣אכֶת הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת הָאֲדָמָ֑ה עֶזְרִ֖י בֶּן כְּלֽוּב
Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 27:26
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 27:26 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
Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
- Septuagint runs shorter here — compare
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
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King James Version Public Domain
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And over the doers of the work of the field for the service of the ground Ezri, the son of Kelub.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of the workers in the fields who tilled the soil.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Ezri son of Chelub was in charge of the workers in the fields who tilled the soil.
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King James Version Public Domain
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And ouer the workemen in the fielde that tilled the ground, was Ezri the sonne of Chelub:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And over the tillage, and the husbandmen, who tilled the ground, was Ezri the son of Chelub:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and over workmen of the field for the service of the ground `is' Ezri son of Chelub;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ezri son of Chelub [is] over workmen of the field for the service of the ground;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Ezri son of Kelub was over the farmers, those who plowed the land.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And over the doers of the work of the field for the service of the ground Ezri, the son of Kelub.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And over them that worked in the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Over those who did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Ezri, son of Kelub, was in charge of the farm workers who worked the land.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;
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עֶזְרִ֖י
ʻEzrîy
H5836
“Ezri”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ezri = "help of Jehovah"
- son of Chelub and superintendent of king David's farm labourers
- וְעַ֗ל ʻal H5921 “and · upon” Conjunction + Preposition
- עֹשֵׂי֙ ʻâsâh H6213 “doing” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- מְלֶ֣אכֶת mᵉlâʼkâh H4399 “work of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה sâdeh H7704 “the · field” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת ʻăbôdâh H5656 “to/for · service of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הָאֲדָמָ֑ה ʼădâmâh H127 “the · ground” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עֶזְרִ֖י ʻEzrîy H5836 “Ezri” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- כְּלֽוּב Kᵉlûwb H3620 “Chelub” Noun, Proper
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 →
- 9
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- עֶזְרִ֖י Ezri H5836
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- עֶזְרִ֖י Ezri H5836
Shared distinctive vocabulary
כְּלֽוּב Chelub H3620 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 7 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- עֹשֵׂי֙ Qal · Participle Active
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter 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.
In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 12 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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 14 words vs World English Bible 20. 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.
ἐπί δέ ὁ γεωργέω ὁ γῆ ὁ ἐργάζομαι εσδρι ὁ ὁ χολουβ
And over the husbandmen who tilled the ground was Esdri the son of Chelub.
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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻEzrîy (“Ezri”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʻEzrîy carries the sense “Ezri.” How does it shape the verse?
- This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
- The word “Ezri” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 1 Chronicles 4:11 shares the word «Chelub» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «עֹשֵׂי֙» is Qal Participle Active. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 27:26 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.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
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.