1 Chronicles 6:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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וַאֲבִיה֔וּא

ʼĂbîyhûwʼ

H30

“and · Abihu”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 12× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 6:23

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1 and H1931

TWOT: None

Abihu = "he is (my) father" - a son of Aaron destroyed for sacrificing strange fire to God

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
9: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וַאֲבִיה֔וּא Abihu H30 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וַאֲבִיה֔וּא Abihu H30 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

11 nouns

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וּבְנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2
אַהֲרֹ֥ן Aaron H175 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 11 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 6:20 Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
Leviticus 10:1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.
Exodus 15:20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
Leviticus 10:12 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;
Exodus 2:4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
Exodus 2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"
Exodus 6:23 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Exodus 24:1 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

Exodus 28:1 "Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
Leviticus 10:16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
1 Chronicles 23:13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.
1 Chronicles 24:1–6 Thes were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Micah 6:4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, And redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

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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.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֣י עַמְרָ֔ם אַהֲרֹ֥ן וּמֹשֶׁ֖ה וּמִרְיָ֑ם וּבְנֵ֣י אַהֲרֹ֔ן נָדָב֙ וַאֲבִיה֔וּא אֶלְעָזָ֖ר וְאִיתָמָֽר

The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:3 Septuagint · lemma form

υἱός κααθ αμβραμ καί ισσααρ χεβρων καί οζιηλ

And the sons of Ambram; Aaron, and Moses, and Mariam: and the sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abiud, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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 6:3 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 →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ch 6:3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Ver. 3. And Miriam] See Mic 6:4. {See Trapp on "Mic 6:4"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

3. Aaron and Moses] The same order in Exo_6:20. Aaron was the elder (Exo_7:7).

The sons also of Aaron] So Exo_6:23.

Nadab and Abihu] These two elder sons perished childless; Lev_10:1-5.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

The sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Which is repeated from Ch1 6:1 for the sake of their posterity, whose names are given in the three following verses, in the same manner as in Exo 6:17.

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1 Chronicles 6:20

ch1 6:20

ch1 6:20

ch1 6:20Of Gershon, Libni his son,.... Whose genealogy runs thus, Jahath, called Jehiel, Ch1 23:8. Zimmah, between whom was Shimei, Ch1 6:42. Joah, the same with Ethan, Ch1 6:42. Iddo, called Adaiah, Ch1 6:41. Zerah, Jeaterai, whose name was also Ethni, Ch1 6:41, the posterity of Shimei, the brother of Libni, are omitted.

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

Abiu. These died without children. The genealogy of Eleazar is given, as his family enjoyed the pontificate a long time, while that of Ithamar is neglected, (Calmet) as only Heli and a few others were raised to that dignity. (Haydock)

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).

The Pulpit Commentary

Once more, Aaron is singled out, and Eleazar, the third of his four sons, fixes the exact channel of descent required.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

The sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Which is repeated from Ch1 6:1 for the sake of their posterity, whose names are given in the three following verses, in the same manner as in Exo 6:17.

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1 Chronicles 6:20

ch1 6:20

ch1 6:20

ch1 6:20Of Gershon, Libni his son,.... Whose genealogy runs thus, Jahath, called Jehiel, Ch1 23:8. Zimmah, between whom was Shimei, Ch1 6:42. Joah, the same with Ethan, Ch1 6:42. Iddo, called Adaiah, Ch1 6:41. Zerah, Jeaterai, whose name was also Ethni, Ch1 6:41, the posterity of Shimei, the brother of Libni, are omitted.

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.)

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîyhûwʼ (“Abihu”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Abihu” (ʼĂbîyhûwʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
Exodus 6:23 shares the word «Abihu» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
“son” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.