1 Chronicles 6:47

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

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מוּשִׁ֔י

Mûwshîy

H4187

“Mushi”

Noun, Proper

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 6:19

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4184

TWOT: None

Mushi = "yielding" - son of Merari, grandson of Kohath, and great grandson of Levi

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 מוּשִׁ֔י Mushi H4187 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מוּשִׁ֔י Mushi H4187 occurs in 8 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:47 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Numbers 3:20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
Numbers 3:33–36 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
Numbers 4:42 Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
Numbers 7:8 and he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 10:17 The tent was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tent, set forward.
Joshua 21:7 The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
Joshua 21:34–40 To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,

1 Chronicles 23:21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
1 Chronicles 23:28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:47 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּן מַחְלִי֙ בֶּן מוּשִׁ֔י בֶּן מְרָרִ֖י בֶּן לֵוִֽי

the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

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Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:47 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ υἱός γεδσων κατά πατριά αὐτός ἐκ φυλή ισσαχαρ ἐκ φυλή ασηρ ἐκ φυλή νεφθαλι ἐκ φυλή μανασσή ἐν ὁ βασαν πόλις τρισκαίδεκα

the son of Mooli, the son of Musi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

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 6:47 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

44–47 (= 29–32 according to the Heb. division). The Descent of Ethan, David’s singer, through Merari from Levi

47. Mahli, the son of Mushi] Cp. 1Ch_23:23; 1Ch_24:30. Mushi had a son Mahli, named after his brother; 1Ch_6:19.

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.

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 Mûwshîy (“Mushi”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Mûwshîy carries the sense “Mushi.” How does it shape the verse?
Exodus 6:19 shares the word «Mushi» 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

“son” occurs 4× in this single verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.