1 Chronicles 6:41

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
Septuagint runs shorter here — compare

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אֶתְנִ֥י

ʼEthnîy

H867

“Ethni”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: perhaps from H866

TWOT: None

Ethni = "my hire" - an ancestor of Asaph

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

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

אֶתְנִ֥י Ethni H867

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

אֶתְנִ֥י Ethni H867

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עֲדָיָֽה Adaiah H5718 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Repetition

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

בֶּן son H1121 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 8 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.

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) 8 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.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:41 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן אֶתְנִ֥י בֶן זֶ֖רַח בֶּן עֲדָיָֽה

the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:41 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ πεδίον ὁ πόλις καί ὁ κώμη αὐτός δίδωμι ὁ χαλεβ υἱός ιεφοννη

the son of Athani, the son of Zaarai,

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 6:41 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 →

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

they gave to Caleb because Moses gave it to him.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼEthnîy (“Ethni”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼEthnîy carries the sense “Ethni.” How does it shape the verse?
This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
The word “Ethni” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
2 Kings 22:1 shares the word «Adaiah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“son” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?

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 3× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.