וְזִיזָ֨א בֶן שִׁפְעִ֧י בֶן אַלּ֛וֹן בֶּן יְדָיָ֥ה בֶן שִׁמְרִ֖י בֶּן שְׁמַֽעְיָֽה
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah--
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 4:37
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 4:37 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
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah--
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 4 first appearances 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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah--
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King James Version Public Domain
And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah,
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
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah--
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
and Ziza son of Shiphi (son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah).
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
and Ziza son of Shiphi (son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah).
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King James Version Public Domain
And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah-
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Ziza the sonne of Shiphei, the sonne of Allon, the sonne of Iedaiah, the sonne of Shimri, the sonne of Shemaiah.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Ziza also the son of Sephei the son of Allon the son of Idaia the son of Semri the son of Samaia.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ziza son of Shiphi son of Allon son of Jedaiah son of Shimri son of Shemaiah.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah:
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ziza (son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah).
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
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שִׁפְעִ֧י
Shiphʻîy
H8230
“Shiphi”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Shiphi = "abundant"
- a Simeonite, son of Allon and father of Ziza in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah
- וְזִיזָ֨א Zîyzâʼ H2124 “and · Ziza” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- בֶן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שִׁפְעִ֧י Shiphʻîy H8230 “Shiphi” Noun, Proper
- בֶן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אַלּ֛וֹן ʼAllôwn H438 “Allon” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יְדָיָ֥ה Yᵉdâyâh H3042 “Jedaiah” Noun, Proper
- בֶן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שִׁמְרִ֖י Shimrîy H8113 “Shimri” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שְׁמַֽעְיָֽה Shᵉmaʻyâh H8098 “Shemaiah” 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 →
- 11
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- שִׁפְעִ֧י Shiphi H8230
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְזִיזָ֨א Ziza H2124 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 11 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בֶן son H1121 ×5
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 11 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.
καί ζουζα υἱός σεφεϊ υἱός αλλων υἱός ιεδια υἱός σαμαρι υἱός σαμαιας
and Zuza the son of Saphai, the son of Alon, the son of Jedia, the son of Semri, the son of Samaias.
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 11 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shiphʻîy (“Shiphi”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Shiphi” (Shiphʻîy) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 word here appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- 4 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does 2 Chronicles 11:20, which shares the word «Ziza», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (5× in this one verse) do in this verse?
Things to notice
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 4 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- “son” occurs 5× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.