וַֽיִּתְּנ֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם אֶת חֶבְר֖וֹן בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יְהוּדָ֑ה וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֖יהָ סְבִיבֹתֶֽיהָ
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it;
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:55
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:55 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
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it;
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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
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it;
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King James Version Public Domain
And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and they gave to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its pasturelands around it,
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
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
They were given Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
They were given Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands.
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King James Version Public Domain
And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
So they gaue them Hebron in the lande of Iudah and the suburbes thereof rounde about it.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And they gave them Hebron in the land of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and they give to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its suburbs round about it;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and they give to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its outskirts around it;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
To them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its pasturelands,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and they gave to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its pasturelands around it,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs round about it;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
They received Hebron in Judah together with its surrounding pasturelands.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-40) to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the open land round about it;
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חֶבְר֖וֹן
Chebrôwn
H2275
“Hebron”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 71× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 13:18
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Hebron = "association"
- a city in south Judah approx 20 south of Jerusalem and approx 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of Beersheba and near where Abraham built an altar (noun proper locative)
- the 3rd son of Kohath and grandson of Levi (noun proper masculine)
- a descendant of Caleb (noun proper masculine)
- וַֽיִּתְּנ֥וּ nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- חֶבְר֖וֹן Chebrôwn H2275 “Hebron” Noun, Proper
- בְּאֶ֣רֶץ ʼerets H776 “in/at · land of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct
- יְהוּדָ֑ה Yᵉhûwdâh H3063 “Judah” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מִגְרָשֶׁ֖יהָ migrâsh H4054 “common lands · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- סְבִיבֹתֶֽיהָ çâbîyb H5439 “surroundings · her” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, 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 →
- 9
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וַֽיִּתְּנ֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 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.
Cross-references
4Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:55 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 14:13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
- Joshua 15:13 To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).
- Joshua 21:11–13 They gave them Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs of it round about it.
- Judges 1:20 They gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the three sons of Anak.
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 ἀπό ὁ ἥμισυς φυλή μανασσή ὁ αναρ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ ιεβλααμ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός κατά πατριά ὁ υἱός κααθ ὁ κατάλοιπος
And they gave them Chebron in the land of Juda, and its suburbs round about it.
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 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chebrôwn (“Hebron”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Hebron” (Chebrôwn) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Joshua 14:13, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «וַֽיִּתְּנ֥וּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:55 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.