וְאֶת חִילֵז֙ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ אֶת דְּבִ֖יר וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶֽׁיהָ
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:58
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:58 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
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
Highlights
- 1 hapax legomenon — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
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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
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Hilez and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands
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
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Hilen, Debir,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Hilen, Debir,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Hilen with her suburbes, and Debir with her suburbes,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Jether and Esthemo, with their suburbs, and Helon, and Dabir with their suburbs:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Hilen and its outskirts, Debir and its outskirts,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Hilen with its pasturelands, and Debir with its pasturelands.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Hilez and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Hilen, Debir,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-43) and Hilen with the open land about it, Debir with the open land about it;
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חִילֵז֙
Chîylên
H2432
“Hilen”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Hilen = "place of caves"
- a city of Judah allotted to the priests
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- חִילֵז֙ Chîylên H2432 “Hilen” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ migrâsh H4054 “common lands · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- דְּבִ֖יר Dᵉbîyr H1688 “Debir” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מִגְרָשֶֽׁיהָ migrâsh H4054 “common lands · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, 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 →
- 8
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
- חִילֵז֙ Hilen H2432
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- חִילֵז֙ Hilen H2432
Shared distinctive vocabulary
דְּבִ֖יר Debir H1688 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 nouns
- 4 particles
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ common land H4054 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 10 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.
In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 14 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
6Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:58 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 10:3 Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
- Joshua 10:38 Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it:
- Joshua 12:13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
- Joshua 15:49 and Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the same is Debir),
- Joshua 15:51 and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
- Joshua 21:15 and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
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 δαβωρ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ αναμ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός
and Jethar and her suburbs, and Dabir and her suburbs,
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 8 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chîylên (“Hilen”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Hilen” (Chîylên) shape what this verse is saying?
- This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
- The word “Hilen” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- Joshua 10:3 shares the word «Debir» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “common land” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “common land” occurs 2× in this single verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:58 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
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.