וּבְנֵ֖י חֶלְאָ֑ה צֶ֥רֶת יצחר וְצֹ֖חַר וְאֶתְנָֽן
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 4:7
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 4:7 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 Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
Highlights
- 3 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 3 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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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 Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Helah: Zereth and Zohar and Ethnan
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 Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan,
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the sonnes of Heleah were Zereth, Iezohar and Ethnan.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the sons of Halaa, Sereth, Isaar, and Ethnan.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Helah's sons were Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Helah: Zereth and Zohar and Ethnan
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Helah: Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the sons of Helah were Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.
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צֶ֥רֶת
Tsereth
H6889
“Zereth”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Zereth = "splendour"
- son of Ashur, the founder of Tekoa, by his wife Helah
- וּבְנֵ֖י bên H1121 “and · sons of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- חֶלְאָ֑ה Chelʼâh H2458 “Helah” Noun, Proper
- צֶ֥רֶת Tsereth H6889 “Zereth” Noun, Proper
- יצחר Yitschar H3328 “Zohar” Noun, Proper
- וְצֹ֖חַר Tsôchar H6714 “and · Zohar” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְאֶתְנָֽן ʼEthnan H869 “and · Ethnan” Conjunction + 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
3 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
חֶלְאָ֑ה Helah H2458 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 6 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 8 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 θοαδα σαρεθ καί σααρ καί εθναν
And the sons of Thoada; Sereth, and Saar, and Esthanam.
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 Tsereth (“Zereth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Zereth” (Tsereth) shape what this verse is saying?
- This verse holds 3 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
- 3 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 1 Chronicles 4:5 shares the word «Helah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 3 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 4:7 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 →
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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).
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.)