1 Chronicles 28:14

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 28:14 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.
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of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    for gold by weight for gold for all of the vessels of service and service, for all of the vessels of silver by weight for all of the vessels of service and service,

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    the weight of all the gold articles for every kind of service; the weight of all the silver articles for every kind of service;
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    the weight of all the gold articles for every kind of service; the weight of all the silver articles for every kind of service;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    of gold by weight for the `vessels of' gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; `of silver' for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    of gold by weight for the vessels of gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; of silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    He gaue of golde by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of all maner of seruice, and all the vessels of siluer by weight, for all maner vessels of all maner of seruice.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Gold by weight for every vessel for the ministry. And silver by weight ac- cording to the diversity of the vessels and uses.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    even gold by weight, for `things of' gold, for all instruments of service and service; for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of service and service;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    even gold by weight, for [things of] gold, for all instruments of every service; for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every service;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He determined the weight of all the gold vessels for each service, the weight of silver vessels for each service,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    for gold by weight for gold for all of the vessels of service and service, for all of the vessels of silver by weight for all of the vessels of service and service,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    gold by weight for [things] of gold, for all utensils of each kind of service; for all utensils of silver, by weight, for all utensils of each kind of service;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    of gold by weight for the gold for all vessels of every kind of service, for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He also laid down how much gold and silver was to be used in making the different objects used in every kind of service,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Of gold, by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of different uses; and silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for vessels of different uses;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    of gold by weight for the vessels of gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; of silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;

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בַּמִּשְׁקָל֙
mishqâl
H4948
“in/at the · weight”
Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Preposition + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H8254

TWOT: 2454c

heaviness, weight
  1. לַזָּהָ֤ב zâhâb H2091 “to/for the · gold” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  2. לַזָּהָ֔ב zâhâb H2091 “to/for the · gold” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. לְכָל kôl H3605 “to/for · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. כְּלֵ֖י kᵉlîy H3627 “vessels of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  5. עֲבוֹדָ֣ה ʻăbôdâh H5656 “service” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  6. וַעֲבוֹדָ֑ה ʻăbôdâh H5656 “and · service” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  7. לְכֹ֨ל kôl H3605 “to/for · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  8. כְּלֵ֤י kᵉlîy H3627 “vessels of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  9. הַכֶּ֨סֶף֙ keçeph H3701 “the · silver” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. בְּמִשְׁקָ֔ל mishqâl H4948 “in/at · weight” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  11. לְכָל kôl H3605 “to/for · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  12. כְּלֵ֖י kᵉlîy H3627 “vessels of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  13. עֲבוֹדָ֥ה ʻăbôdâh H5656 “service” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  14. וַעֲבוֹדָֽה ʻăbôdâh H5656 “and · service” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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15
words
6
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בַּמִּשְׁקָל֙ weight H4948 occurs in 42 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 15 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • עֲבוֹדָ֣ה service H5656 ×4
  • לְכָל all H3605 ×3
  • כְּלֵ֖י vessel H3627 ×3
  • לַזָּהָ֤ב gold H2091 ×2
  • בַּמִּשְׁקָל֙ weight H4948 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 35 words from the Hebrew and 15 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 11 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) 15 words vs World English Bible 35. 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.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 28:14 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

לַזָּהָ֤ב בַּמִּשְׁקָל֙ לַזָּהָ֔ב לְכָל כְּלֵ֖י עֲבוֹדָ֣ה וַעֲבוֹדָ֑ה לְכֹ֨ל כְּלֵ֤י הַכֶּ֨סֶף֙ בְּמִשְׁקָ֔ל לְכָל כְּלֵ֖י עֲבוֹדָ֥ה וַעֲבוֹדָֽה

of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 28:14 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ σταθμός ὁ ὁλκή αὐτός ὁ τε χρυσοῦς καί ἀργυροῦς

And he gave him the account of their weight, both of gold and silver vessels.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 28:14 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ch 28:14 [He gave] of gold by weight for [things] of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; [silver also] for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:

Ver. 14. He gave of gold by weight.] The vessels for the holy place were of gold, as those for the priests’ court were of silver. {a} Now, like as in the temple there were some vessels of gold, and some of silver, and all had their weight, and their use; so in the Church of Christ there are diversity of vessels, and of gifts. {2Ti 2:20-21}

{a} Jun.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

28:14-18 This list of vessels legitimized each object in the Temple by specifically recounting what God had communicated about them through David.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 14. Of gold by weight] The quantity of gold which was to be put in each article.

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

(14) He gave of gold by weight for things of gold.—The Hebrew is very concise. Apparently it continues the construction of 1Ch_28:12, so that the sense is: “He gave him a pattern or description for the golden vessels (literally, for the gold), by the weight for the golden vessels (Heb., for the gold), for all vessels of each kind of service (i.e., use); and he gave him a pattern for all the silver vessels, by weight, for all vessels of each kind of service.” In other words, David gave Solomon an account or schedule of all the different vessels of gold and silver that would be required for the sanctuary, specifying the exact weight of each. (Comp. Ezr_8:25, seq. Ezr_8:34.)

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

14. He gave of gold by weight for things of gold] R.V. of gold by weight for the vessels of gold, omitting he gave, because the completion of the sense is reserved (as in 1Ch_28:13) until 1Ch_28:19.

instruments] R.V. vessels.

silver also] R.V. of silver.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service,.... Whatever was to be made of gold, David was directed by the Spirit of God what weight or quantity of gold should be made use of in making it, as appears from some following instances: silver also

for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service; so likewise whatever instruments or vessels, for the service of the temple, were to be made of silver, he had a direction from the Spirit of God what weight each was to be of, or what quantity of silver was to be used in it, and this he gave; according to Jacob Jehudah Leon (s), the vessels of gold were 340,000, the vessels of silver 470,000, in all 810,000.

(s) Relation of Memorable Things in the Tabernacle and Temple, ch. 4. p. 19.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Weight, or sufficient for each, ver. 15. (Haydock) --- Some think he only left a memorial of what quantity of gold and silver would be requisite. It does not appear that Solomon used silver for the vessels, as he chose to execute his father’s injunctions with still greater magnificence.

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).

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 14, 15. The general meaning of these verses is that, if the question were one of gold, or one of silver, David assigned for each vessel and each part of the candlesticks, the proportionate weight of gold that was to be employed.

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

He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service,.... Whatever was to be made of gold, David was directed by the Spirit of God what weight or quantity of gold should be made use of in making it, as appears from some following instances: silver also

for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service; so likewise whatever instruments or vessels, for the service of the temple, were to be made of silver, he had a direction from the Spirit of God what weight each was to be of, or what quantity of silver was to be used in it, and this he gave; according to Jacob Jehudah Leon (s), the vessels of gold were 340,000, the vessels of silver 470,000, in all 810,000.

(s) Relation of Memorable Things in the Tabernacle and Temple, ch. 4. p. 19.

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.)

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

Of gold, in weight for gold, for all the vessels of every service and so for all silver vessels by weight.

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.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mishqâl (“weight”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “weight” (mishqâl) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Genesis 24:22 shares the word «weight» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “service” occurs 4× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
  5. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  6. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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