מְרָי֥וֹת בְּנ֛וֹ אֲמַרְיָ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ אֲחִיט֥וּב בְּנֽוֹ
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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1 Chronicles 6:52
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:52 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
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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World English Bible Public Domain
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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King James Version Public Domain
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Meraioth his sonne, Amariah his sonne, Ahitub his sonne,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Meraioth his son, Amarias his son, Achitob his son,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Zerahiah's son was Meraioth. Meraioth's son was Amariah. Amariah's son was Ahitub.
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-37) Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son;
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מְרָי֥וֹת
Mᵉrâyôwth
H4812
“Meraioth”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 6:6
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Meraioth = "rebellious"
- grandfather of Ahitub, descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and the head of a priestly house
- son of Ahitub, father of Zadok, descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and the head of a priestly house
- head of a family of priests represented by Helkai in the time of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua
- מְרָי֥וֹת Mᵉrâyôwth H4812 “Meraioth” Noun, Proper
- בְּנ֛וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֲמַרְיָ֥ה ʼĂmaryâh H568 “Amariah” Noun, Proper
- בְנ֖וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֲחִיט֥וּב ʼĂchîyṭûwb H285 “Ahitub” Noun, Proper
- בְּנֽוֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 מְרָי֥וֹת Meraioth H4812 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מְרָי֥וֹת Meraioth H4812 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:
- בְּנ֛וֹ son H1121 ×3
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 9 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.
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 δίδωμι αὐτός ὁ πόλις ὁ φυγαδευτήριον ὁ συχεμ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός ἐν ὄρος ἐφράιμ καί ὁ γαζερ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός
Mariel his son, Amaria his son, Achitob his son,
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 Mᵉrâyôwth (“Meraioth”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Meraioth” (Mᵉrâyôwth) shape what this verse is saying?
- 1 Chronicles 6:6 shares the word «Meraioth» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “son” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
Things to notice
- “son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.