1 Chronicles 6:26

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

World English Bible · Public Domain

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צוֹפַ֥י

Tsûwph

H6689

“Zuph”

Noun, Proper

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 1:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6688

TWOT: None

Zuph or Zophai = "honeycomb" - a Kohathite Levite, ancestor of Elkanah and Samuel (noun proper masculine) - a district northwest of Jerusalem where Saul encountered Samuel (noun proper locative)

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
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is צוֹפַ֥י Zuph H6689 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

צוֹפַ֥י Zuph H6689 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

8 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בנו son H1121 ×4
אֶלְקָנָ֑ה Elkanah H511 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 9 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →

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 6 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
1 Chronicles 6:35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

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.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 9 words vs World English Bible 14. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:26 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֶלְקָנָ֑ה בנו בְּנֵי֙ אֶלְקָנָ֔ה צוֹפַ֥י בְּנ֖וֹ וְנַ֥חַת בְּנֽוֹ

As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:26 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός αθανι υἱός ζαραι υἱός αδια

Helcana his son, Suphi his son, Cainaath his son;

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:26 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.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(26) The Hebrew text reads: “Elkanah his son—Elkanah—Zophai his son,” &c. Zophai might mean the Zophite. The LXX. has (1Ch_6:25) “And sons of Elkanah, Amessi and Ahimoth;” (1Ch_6:26) “Elkanah his son, Souphi his son,” &c. So the Syriac. That this is correct appears from comparison of Heman’s pedigree (1Ch_6:35). The second Elkanah in 1Ch_6:26 is therefore an intrusion, due perhaps to some scribe who remembered 1Sa_1:1, where Zophim occurs just before Elkanah. In 1Ch_6:35 Elkanah is son of Mahath, son of Amasai. Perhaps Mahath is identical with the Ahimoth of 1Ch_6:25; if so, the true reading of 1Ch_6:25-26 would be: “And sons of Elkanah: Amasai his son, Ahimoth (Mahath) his son, Elkanah his son, Zophai his son,” &c. Zophai is to Zuph (1Ch_6:35) as Chelubai (1Ch_2:9) to Chelub (1Ch_4:11). Nahath looks like a transformation of Toah (1Ch_6:34), and Eliab (1Ch_6:27)—“El is father”—may be a by-form of Eliel (ibid.) “El is el.” Jeroham and Elkanah go back to Eliel in 1Ch_6:34, just as they spring from Eliab here. The two series again coincide.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

26. Zophai his son, etc.] We have here one of the three genealogies of Samuel the prophet. Each list seems to have suffered in transcription; the three are given here for comparison.

1Ch_6:26-28

1Ch_6:33-35

1Sa_1:1; 1Sa_8:2.

Zophai

Zuph

Zuph

Nahath

Toah

Tohu

Eliab

Eliel

Elihu

Jeroham

Jeroham

Jeroham

Elkanah

Elkanah

Elkanah

Samuel

Samuel

Samuel

—

—

—

[ ] and Abiah

Joel

Joel and Abijah

28. The firstborn Vashni, and Abiah] Render (from an emendation of the Heb. text) the firstborn Joel and the second Abijah (as 1Sa_8:2).

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.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ch 6:26. As for Elkanah, &c. — This was another Elkanah, son or grandson of the former Elkanah, and either the son or brother of Ahimoth, last mentioned, or of Amasai. Nahath his son — Called also Toah, 1Ch 6:34, and Tohu, 1Sa 1:1. The Elkanah mentioned in the next verse was the father of the Prophet Samuel, whose name therefore follows.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

CHAPTER VI.

Sophai, Nahath, and Eliab, are called Suph, Thohu, (ver. 34.; Calmet) and Eliel. (Haydock) --- Sophai may be a surname of Elcana. (Poole) (Du Hamel)

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

Elkanah; this was another Elkanah, son or grandson of the former Elkanah and either the son or brother of Ahimoth last mentioned, or of Amasai.

Nahath, called also Toah, 1Ch 6:31, and Tohu, 1Sa 1:1.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Tsûwph (“Zuph”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Tsûwph carries the sense “Zuph.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Samuel 1:1, which shares the word «Zuph», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “son” (4× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
“son” occurs 4× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.