1 Chronicles 6:36

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

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צְפַנְיָֽה

Tsᵉphanyâh

H6846

“Zephaniah”

Noun, Proper

Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 2 Kings 25:18

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6845 and H3050

TWOT: None

Zephaniah = "Jehovah has treasured" - the 9th in order of the 12 minor prophets; descendant of king Hezekiah of Judah and prophet in the time of king Josiah of Judah - son of Maaseiah and second priest in the reign of king Zedekiah of Judah; succeeded Jehoiada and an officer of the temple; slain at Riblah on the capture of Jerusalem - father of Josiah and Hen in the time of the prophet Zechariah - a Levite

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

The rarest word here is צְפַנְיָֽה Zephaniah H6846 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

צְפַנְיָֽה Zephaniah H6846 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.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 9 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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:36 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן אֶלְקָנָה֙ בֶּן יוֹאֵ֔ל בֶּן עֲזַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן צְפַנְיָֽה

the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:36 Septuagint · lemma form

βωκαι υἱός αὐτός οζι υἱός αὐτός ζαραια υἱός αὐτός

the son of Helcana, the son of Joel, the son of Azarias, the son of Japhanias,

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 6:36 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 →

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Tahath ... Assir ... Ebiasaph ... Izhar ... Kohath

These are names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

Azariah

Zephaniah

Korah

Levi

Jacob

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Tsᵉphanyâh (“Zephaniah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Tsᵉphanyâh carries the sense “Zephaniah.” How does it shape the verse?
2 Kings 25:18 shares the word «Zephaniah» 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

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
“son” occurs 4× in this single verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.