שַׁלֻּ֥ם בְּנ֛וֹ מִבְשָׂ֥ם בְּנ֖וֹ מִשְׁמָ֥ע בְּנֽוֹ
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 4:25
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 4:25 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
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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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
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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King James Version Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Shallum, his son; Mibsam, his son; Mishma, his son.
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
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Shaul: Shallum, Mibsam, and Mishma.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Shaul: Shallum, Mibsam, and Mishma.
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King James Version Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Whose sonne was Shallum, and his sonne, Mibsam, and his sonne Mishma.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Sellum his son, Mapsam his son, Masma his son.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Shallum was Shaul's son, Mibsam was Shallum's son, and Mishma was Mibsam's son.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Shallum, his son; Mibsam, his son; Mishma, his son.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Shallum was the son of Shaul, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
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מִבְשָׂ֥ם
Mibsâm
H4017
“Mibsam”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 25:13
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Mibsam = "sweet odour"
- a son of Ishmael
- a descendant of Simeon
- שַׁלֻּ֥ם Shallûwm H7967 “Shallum” Noun, Proper
- בְּנ֛וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מִבְשָׂ֥ם Mibsâm H4017 “Mibsam” Noun, Proper
- בְּנ֖וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מִשְׁמָ֥ע Mishmâʻ H4927 “Mishma” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֽוֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מִבְשָׂ֥ם Mibsam H4017 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִבְשָׂ֥ם Mibsam H4017 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְּנ֛וֹ son H1121 ×3
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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.
σαλεμ υἱός αὐτός μαβασαμ υἱός αὐτός μασμα υἱός αὐτός
Salem his son, Mabasam his son, Masma his son:
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 (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mibsâm (“Mibsam”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Mibsâm carries the sense “Mibsam.” How does it shape the verse?
- Genesis 25:13 shares the word «Mibsam» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- “son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 4:25 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 →
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
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.)