בֶּן יַ֥חַת בֶּן גֵּרְשֹׁ֖ם בֶּן לֵוִֽי
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:43
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:43 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 Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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World English Bible Public Domain
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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King James Version Public Domain
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershon, the son of Levi.
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 Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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King James Version Public Domain
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonne of Iahath, the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Leui.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The son of Jeth, the son of Gerson, the son of Levi.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Shimei was the son of Jahath. Jahath was the son of Gershon. Gershon was the son of Levi.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershon, the son of Levi.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershon, the son of Levi.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-28) the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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יַ֥חַת
Yachath
H3189
“Jahath”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 4:2
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Jahath = "He will snatch up"
- son of Reaiah and grandson of Shobal of the tribe of Judah
- a son of Libni and grandson of Gershom and great grandson of Levi
- a Gershonite Levite; the eldest son of Shimei and the grandson of Laadan; founder of the house of Jahath
- a Levite and son of Shelomoth
- a Merarite Levite in the reign of Josiah
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יַ֥חַת Yachath H3189 “Jahath” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- גֵּרְשֹׁ֖ם Gêrᵉshôm H1647 “Gershom” Noun, Proper
- בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- לֵוִֽי Lêvîy H3878 “Levi” 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 יַ֥חַת Jahath H3189 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
יַ֥חַת Jahath H3189 occurs in 7 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 12 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.
Cross-references
8Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:43 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 46:11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Exodus 2:22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."
- Exodus 6:16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
- Numbers 3:17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:16–17 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
- 1 Chronicles 23:6 David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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 ιεθθαρ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ δαβιρ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός
the son of Jeeth, the son of Gedson, the son of Levi.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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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 Yachath (“Jahath”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Jahath” (Yachath) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 1 Chronicles 4:2 shares the word «Jahath» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
- “son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:43 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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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.