וְאֵ֛לֶּה שְׁמ֥וֹת בְּֽנֵי גֵרְשׁ֖וֹם לִבְנִ֥י וְשִׁמְעִֽי
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:17
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:17 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
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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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
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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King James Version Public Domain
And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And these the names of the sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei.
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
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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King James Version Public Domain
And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni and Shimei.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And these be the names of the sonnes of Gershom, Libni, and Shimei.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And these are the names of the sons of Gerson: Lobni and Semei.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And these `are' names of sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And these [are] names of sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And these the names of the sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And these are the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
These are the names of the sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-2) And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni, and Shimei.
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לִבְנִ֥י
Libnîy
H3845
“Libni”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 6:17
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Libni = "white"
- the eldest son of Gershon and grandson of Levi
- וְאֵ֛לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “and · these” Conjunction + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
- שְׁמ֥וֹת shêm H8034 “names of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- בְּֽנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- גֵרְשׁ֖וֹם Gêrᵉshôm H1647 “Gershom” Noun, Proper
- לִבְנִ֥י Libnîy H3845 “Libni” Noun, Proper
- וְשִׁמְעִֽי Shimʻîy H8096 “and · Shimei” 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
The rarest word here is לִבְנִ֥י Libni H3845 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לִבְנִ֥י Libni H3845 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 1 pronoun
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 13 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.
Cross-references
4Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 23:7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
- Exodus 6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
- Numbers 3:18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
- Numbers 3:21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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 εἰμί λειτουργέω ἐναντίον ὁ σκηνή οἶκος μαρτύριον ἐν ὄργανον ἕως ὅς οἰκοδομέω σαλωμών ὁ οἶκος κύριος ἐν ἰερουσαλήμ καί ἵστημι κατά ὁ κρίσις αὐτός ἐπί ὁ λειτουργία αὐτός
And these are the names of the sons of Gedson; Lobeni, and Semei.
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 Libnîy (“Libni”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Libni” (Libnîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Exodus 6:17, which shares the word «Libni», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Rashi read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:17 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 →
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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.