1 Chronicles 6:59

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;

World English Bible · Public Domain

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עָשָׁן֙

ʻÂshân

H6228

“Ashan”

Noun, Proper

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Joshua 15:42

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H6227

TWOT: None

Ashan = "smoke" - a city in the lowland of Judah later mentioned as belonging to Simeon

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
4: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is עָשָׁן֙ Ashan H6228 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

עָשָׁן֙ Ashan H6228 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
4 particles

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ common land H4054 ×2
בֵּ֥ית Beth-shemesh H1053 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 10 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.

In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 17 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

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:59 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 21:16 and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Joshua 15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Joshua 15:10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
1 Samuel 6:12–19 The cattle took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
1 Chronicles 4:32 Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
Jeremiah 43:13 He shall also break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:59 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶת עָשָׁן֙ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ וְאֶת בֵּ֥ית שֶׁ֖מֶשׁ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶֽׁיהָ

and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:59 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐκ φυλή ασηρ ὁ μασαλ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ αβαραν καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός

and Asan and her suburbs, and Baethsamys and her suburbs:

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 6:59 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 →

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(59) Ashan (smoke); in Joshua, Ain (fountain). The place may have had both names, from a fountain rising like a column of smoke. “Juttah and her pastures” has fallen out here (Jos_21:16). At the end of the verse Joshua adds, “Nine cities out of these two tribes,” viz., Judah and Simeon.

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

59. Ashan] Jos_21:16, Ain.

with her suburbs] Jos_21:16 adds, And Juttah with her suburbs. Cp. the Critical Note at the head of this section.

Beth-shemesh] Jos_15:10; 1Sa_6:9; 2Ki_14:11; 2Ki_14:13 (= 2Ch_25:21; 2Ch_25:23). A town in the S.W. of Judah, now ‘Ain Shems, situated at the point at which the hill-country of Judah begins, as one goes by the railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem (Bädeker, p. 13).

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

Asan, perhaps Jethnan, or Ain, Josue xv. 23., and xxi. 15. Syriac adds Ethra. (Calmet) --- Bethsames. Alexandrian Septuagint subjoins, "Baither and its suburbs." (Haydock) --- All these cities were in the tribes of Juda and of Simeon. (Menochius)

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).

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

See: How to Translate Names

Ashan ... Beth Shemesh ... Geba ... Alemeth ... Anathoth

All of the names in this list are the names of towns. (See: How to Translate Names)

its pasturelands

the land with grass for animals to eat. See how you translated this in 1 Chronicles 5:16.

All their cities numbered thirteen

"They had a total of 13 cities" (See: Numbers)

translationWords

Aaron

Beth Shemesh

tribe

Benjamin

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻÂshân (“Ashan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʻÂshân carries the sense “Ashan.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Joshua 15:42, which shares the word «Ashan», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “common land” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 17 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
“common land” occurs 2× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.