בֶּן אֶלְקָנָה֙ בֶּן יְרֹחָ֔ם בֶּן אֱלִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן תּֽוֹחַ
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:34
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:34 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 son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 1 first appearance 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 son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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King James Version Public Domain
The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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 son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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King James Version Public Domain
The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Eliel, the sonne of Toah,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The son of Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Thohu,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Samuel was the son of Elkanah. Elkanah was the son of Jeroham. Jeroham was the son of Eliel. Eliel was the son of Toah.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-19) the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah;
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תּֽוֹחַ
Tôwach
H8430
“Toah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Toah = "lowly"
- son of Zuph, father of Eliel, and ancestor of Samuel and Heman
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֶלְקָנָה֙ ʼElqânâh H511 “Elkanah” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יְרֹחָ֔ם Yᵉrôchâm H3395 “Jeroham” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֱלִיאֵ֖ל ʼĔlîyʼêl H447 “Eliel” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- תּֽוֹחַ Tôwach H8430 “Toah” 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 →
- 8
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- תּֽוֹחַ Toah H8430
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- תּֽוֹחַ Toah H8430
Shared distinctive vocabulary
יְרֹחָ֔ם Jeroham H3395 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 8 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בֶּן son H1121 ×4
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 16 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.
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 ἀαρών καί ὁ υἱός αὐτός θυμιάζω ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον ὁ ὁλοκαύτωμα καί ἐπί ὁ θυσιαστήριον ὁ θυμίαμα εἰς πᾶς ἐργασία ἅγιος ὁ ἅγιος καί ἐκἱλάσκομαι περί ἰσραήλ κατά πᾶς ὅσος ἐντέλλομαι μωυσῆς παῖς ὁ θεός
the son of Helcana, the son of Jeroboam, the son of Eliel, the son of Thoas,
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 8 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Tôwach (“Toah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Toah” (Tôwach) shape what this verse is saying?
- This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
- The word “Toah” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 1 Samuel 1:1 shares the word «Jeroham» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 4× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
Things to notice
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- “son” occurs 4× in this single verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:34 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 →
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).