בֶּן אֵיתָ֥ן בֶּן זִמָּ֖ה בֶּן שִׁמְעִֽי
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:42
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:42 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 Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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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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World English Bible Public Domain
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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King James Version Public Domain
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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 Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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King James Version Public Domain
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonne of Ethan, the sonne of Zimmah, the sonne of Shimei,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The son of Ethan, the son of Zamma, the son of Semei.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Adaiah was the son of Ethan. Ethan was the son of Zimmah. Zimmah was the son of Shimei.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-27) the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei;
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זִמָּ֖ה
Zimmâh
H2155
“Zimmah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 6:20
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Zimmah = "plotter"
- a Gershonite Levite, son of Jahath
- another Gershonite, son of Shimei; perhaps the same as 1 above
- father or ancestor of Joah, a Gershonite in the reign of Hezekiah
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֵיתָ֥ן ʼÊythân H387 “Ethan” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- זִמָּ֖ה Zimmâh H2155 “Zimmah” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שִׁמְעִֽי Shimʻîy H8096 “Shimei” 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 →
- 6
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is זִמָּ֖ה Zimmah H2155 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
זִמָּ֖ה Zimmah H2155 occurs in 3 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 16 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.
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 ὁ υἱός ἀαρών δίδωμι ὁ πόλις ὁ φυγαδευτήριον ὁ χεβρων καί ὁ λοβνα καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ σελνα καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ εσθαμω καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός
the son of Adai, the son of Aetham, the son of Zammam, the son of Semei,
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 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Zimmâh (“Zimmah”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Zimmah” (Zimmâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does 1 Chronicles 6:20, which shares the word «Zimmah», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
Things to notice
- “son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:42 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.
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.