וּבְנֵ֖י מִשְׁמָ֑ע חַמּוּאֵ֥ל בְּנ֛וֹ זַכּ֥וּר בְּנ֖וֹ שִׁמְעִ֥י בְנֽוֹ
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 4:26
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 4:26 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
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
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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
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel, his son; Zakkur, his son; Shimei, his son.
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
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel, Zaccur, and Shimei.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel, Zaccur, and Shimei.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the sons of Mishma; Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the sonnes of Mishma, Hamuel was his sonne, Zacchur his sonne, and Shimei his sonne.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The sons of Masma: Hamuel his son, Zachur his son, Semei his son.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Mishma's descendants were Hammuel his son, Zakkur his grandson, and Shimei his great-grandson.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel, his son; Zakkur, his son; Shimei, his son.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, and Shimei his son.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
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חַמּוּאֵ֥ל
Chammûwʼêl
H2536
“Hamuel”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Hamuel = "heat of God"
- a man of Simeon, of the family of Shaul
- וּבְנֵ֖י bên H1121 “and · sons of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- מִשְׁמָ֑ע Mishmâʻ H4927 “Mishma” Noun, Proper
- חַמּוּאֵ֥ל Chammûwʼêl H2536 “Hamuel” Noun, Proper
- בְּנ֛וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- זַכּ֥וּר Zakkûwr H2139 “Zaccur” Noun, Proper
- בְּנ֖וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שִׁמְעִ֥י Shimʻîy H8096 “Shimei” Noun, Proper
- בְנֽוֹ 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 →
- 8
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- חַמּוּאֵ֥ל Hamuel H2536
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- חַמּוּאֵ֥ל Hamuel H2536
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִשְׁמָ֑ע Mishma H4927 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 8 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וּבְנֵ֖י son H1121 ×4
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 8 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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
αμουηλ υἱός αὐτός σαβουδ υἱός αὐτός ζακχουρ υἱός αὐτός σεμεϊ υἱός αὐτός
Amuel his son, Sabud his son, Zacchur his son, Semei 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 8 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chammûwʼêl (“Hamuel”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Hamuel” (Chammûwʼêl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- This is the first place “Hamuel” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Genesis 25:14, which shares the word «Mishma», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (4× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how John Gill's Exposition and Keil & Delitzsch read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
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 8 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 4× in this single verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 4:26 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 →
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.
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.)