1 Chronicles 6:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

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יְרֹחָ֥ם

Yᵉrôchâm

H3395

“Jeroham”

Noun, Proper

Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Samuel 1:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7355

TWOT: None

Jeroham = "showing pity" - father of Elkanah and grandfather of Samuel of the house of Kohath - a Benjamite and the founder of a family of Benjamites - father or progenitor of Ibneiah and a Benjamite; maybe same as 2 - a descendant of Aaron and a priest of the family of Immer; son of Pashur and father of Adaiah - another priest; maybe same as 4 - a resident of Gedor and father of one of David's mighty warriors - a Danite whose son or descendant Azareel was head of the tribe in the time of David - father of Azariah one of the captains with Jehoiada in the time of Athaliah

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
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יְרֹחָ֥ם Jeroham H3395 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְרֹחָ֥ם Jeroham H3395 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

בְּנ֛וֹ son H1121 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 9 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 6 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 6:27 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 Samuel 1:19–20 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֱלִיאָ֥ב בְּנ֛וֹ יְרֹחָ֥ם בְּנ֖וֹ אֶלְקָנָ֥ה בְנֽוֹ

Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

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Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:27 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός αιθαν υἱός ζαμμα υἱός σεμεϊ

Eliab his son, Jeroboam his son, Helcana 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 →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:27 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 →

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

6:27 When he served under Eli, Samuel assumed a Levitical function (1 Sam 3:1).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Elkanah--the father of the prophet Samuel (Sa1 1:1).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Elcana, his son. It seems necessary to supply, "Samuel, his son," (Haydock) as he descended from the 3d Elcana. (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; the father of the prophet Samuel, 1Sa 1:1, who therefore follows here.

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

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 (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yᵉrôchâm (“Jeroham”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Jeroham” (Yᵉrôchâm) contribute to the verse as a whole?
1 Samuel 1:1 shares the word «Jeroham» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
“son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.