אֶלְעָזָר֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת פִּֽינְחָ֔ס פִּֽינְחָ֖ס הֹלִ֥יד אֶת אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ
Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:4
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:4 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
Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
Highlights
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
- Septuagint runs shorter here — compare
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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
Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
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King James Version Public Domain
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Eleazar fathered Phinehas. Phinehas fathered Abishua.
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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
Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas was the father of Abishua,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas was the father of Abishua,
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King James Version Public Domain
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Eleazar begate Phinehas. Phinehas begate Abishua,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Eleazar beget Phinees, and Phinees beget Abisue,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Eleazar begot Phinehas, Phinehas begot Abishua,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, and Phinehas became the father of Abishua.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Eleazar fathered Phinehas. Phinehas fathered Abishua.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Eleazar begot Phinehas; Phinehas begot Abishua,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas was the father of Abishua,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the father of Abishua;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(5-30) Eleazar begot Phinehas, Phinehas begot Abishua;
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אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ
ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ
H50
“Abishua”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Abishua = "my father is rescue (safety), or is opulence"
- son of Phinehas, grandson of Aaron
- אֶלְעָזָר֙ ʼElʻâzâr H499 “Eleazar” Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֣יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- פִּֽינְחָ֔ס Pîynᵉchâç H6372 “Phinehas” Noun, Proper
- פִּֽינְחָ֖ס Pîynᵉchâç H6372 “Phinehas” Noun, Proper
- הֹלִ֥יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ H50 “Abishua” 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
The rarest word here is אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ Abishua H50 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ Abishua H50
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ Abishua H50 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- הוֹלִ֣יד Hiphil · Perfect
- הֹלִ֥יד Hiphil · Perfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 6 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 14 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
14Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 6:25 Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
- 1 Chronicles 6:50 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
- Ezra 7:1–5 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
- Numbers 25:6–11 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 25:13 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
- Numbers 31:6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
- Joshua 22:13 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
- Joshua 22:30–32 When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
- Joshua 24:33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
- Judges 20:28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.
- 1 Chronicles 6:4–6 Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,
- 1 Chronicles 9:20 Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, [and] Yahweh was with him.
- Ezra 8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush.
- Psalms 106:30–31 Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, So the plague was stopped.
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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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 6 words vs World English Bible 12. 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.
υἱός μεραρι μοολι καί ομουσι καί οὗτος ὁ πατριά ὁ λευί κατά πατριά αὐτός
Eleazar begot Phinees, Phinees begot Abisu;
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
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ (“Abishua”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Abishua” (ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This is the first place “Abishua” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does 1 Chronicles 6:5, which shares the word «Abishua», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to bear” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- «הוֹלִ֣יד» is a Hiphil Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “to bear” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:4 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
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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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.
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).
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.