וּבֶן נְעַרְיָ֗ה אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֧י וְחִזְקִיָּ֛ה וְעַזְרִיקָ֖ם שְׁלֹשָֽׁה
The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 3:23
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 3:23 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 sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
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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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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
The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the son of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam—three.
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 sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam—three in all.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam—three in all.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the sonnes of Neariah were Elioenai, and Hezekiiah, and Azrikam, three.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The sons of Naaria, Elioenai, and Ezechias, and Ezricam, three.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam—three.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Neariah's three sons were Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the son of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam—three.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah and Azrikam—a total of three.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam, three.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
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נְעַרְיָ֗ה
Nᵉʻaryâh
H5294
“Neariah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 3:22
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Neariah = "servant of Jehovah"
- one of the 6 sons of Shemaiah in the line of the royal family of David of the tribe of Judah in the time after the captivity
- son of Ishi and one of the captains of the 500 Simeonites who, in the days of king Hezekiah of Judah, drove out the Amalekites from Mount Seir
- וּבֶן bên H1121 “and · son of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- נְעַרְיָ֗ה Nᵉʻaryâh H5294 “Neariah” Noun, Proper
- אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֧י ʼElyᵉhôwʻêynay H454 “Elioenai” Noun, Proper
- וְחִזְקִיָּ֛ה Chizqîyâh H2396 “and · Hezekiah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְעַזְרִיקָ֖ם ʻAzrîyqâm H5840 “and · Azrikam” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- שְׁלֹשָֽׁה shâlôwsh H7969 “three” 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
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נְעַרְיָ֗ה Neariah H5294 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נְעַרְיָ֗ה Neariah H5294 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 11 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 9 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.
καί υἱός νωαδια ελιθεναν καί εζεκια καί εζρικαμ τρεῖς
And the sons of Noadia: Elithenan, and Ezekia, and Ezricam, three.
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 Nᵉʻaryâh (“Neariah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Neariah” (Nᵉʻaryâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does 1 Chronicles 3:22, which shares the word «Neariah», read alongside 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 Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 3:23 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.
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.