1 Chronicles 6:62

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To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And to the sons of Gershom, for their clans, from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan 13 cities.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The Gershomites, according to their clans, were allotted thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The Gershomites, according to their clans, were allotted thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And to the sonnes of Gershom according to their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And to the sons of Gerson by their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Aser, and out of the tribe of Nephtali, and out of the tribe of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities. their
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And to the sons of Gershom, for their families, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And to the sons of Gershom, for their families, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, [are] thirteen cities.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    To Gershon's descendants in their various clans were given thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And to the sons of Gershom, for their clans, from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan 13 cities.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And to the children of Gershom according to their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families were given out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The descendants of Gershon, by family, received thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, and Naphtali, and from the partial tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    (6-47) And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

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גֵרְשׁ֜וֹם
Gêrᵉshôm
H1647
“Gershom”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: for H1648

TWOT: None

Gershom = "foreigner" - firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah - firstborn son of Levi - a son of the priestly family of Phinehas who returned from exile with Ezra
  1. וְלִבְנֵ֨י bên H1121 “and · to/for · sons of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. לְמִשְׁפְּחוֹתָ֗ם mishpâchâh H4940 “to/for · families · their” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  3. מִמַּטֵּ֣ה maṭṭeh H4294 “from · staff of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. יִ֠שָׂשכָר Yissâˢkâr H3485 “Issachar” Noun, Proper
  5. וּמִמַּטֵּ֨ה maṭṭeh H4294 “and · from · staff of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. אָשֵׁ֜ר ʼÂshêr H836 “Asher” Noun, Proper
  7. וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה maṭṭeh H4294 “and · from · staff of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  8. נַפְתָּלִ֗י Naphtâlîy H5321 “Naphtali” Noun, Proper
  9. וּמִמַּטֵּ֤ה maṭṭeh H4294 “and · from · staff of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  10. מְנַשֶּׁה֙ Mᵉnashsheh H4519 “Manasseh” Noun, Proper
  11. בַּבָּשָׁ֔ן Bâshân H1316 “in/at the · Bashan” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Proper
  12. עָרִ֖ים ʻîyr H5892 “cities” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
  13. שְׁלֹ֥שׁ shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  14. עֶשְׂרֵֽה ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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15
words
12
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is גֵרְשׁ֜וֹם Gershom H1647 — appearing just 14 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

גֵרְשׁ֜וֹם Gershom H1647 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 13 nouns
  • 2 adjectives

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • מִמַּטֵּ֣ה staff H4294 ×4

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 40 words from the Hebrew and 37 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 21 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

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:62 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 2:22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."
  • Joshua 21:27–33 To the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.
  • 1 Chronicles 6:71–76 To the sons of Gershom [were given], out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:62 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלִבְנֵ֨י גֵרְשׁ֜וֹם לְמִשְׁפְּחוֹתָ֗ם מִמַּטֵּ֣ה יִ֠שָׂשכָר וּמִמַּטֵּ֨ה אָשֵׁ֜ר וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה נַפְתָּלִ֗י וּמִמַּטֵּ֤ה מְנַשֶּׁה֙ בַּבָּשָׁ֔ן עָרִ֖ים שְׁלֹ֥שׁ עֶשְׂרֵֽה

To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:62 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ υἱός μεραρι ὁ κατάλοιπος ἐκ φυλή ζαβουλων ὁ ρεμμων καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ θαχχια καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός

And to the sons of Gedson according to their families there were given thirteen cities of the tribe of Issachar, of the tribe of Aser, of the tribe of Nephthali, of the tribe of Manasse in Basan.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:62 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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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

to the sons of Gershom--Supply "the children of Israel gave."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(62) Gershom (Josh., Gershon) throughout their families.—Heb., to [i.e., with regard to, after] their clans (so 1Ch_6:63). In 1Ch_6:60, “throughout their families” represents Heb. in their clans.

Tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.—Joshua, “half- tribe.”

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

62. the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan] i.e. the half tribe of Manasseh beyond Jordan.

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.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

To the sons of Gershom; understand here, cities were given, which is also understood 1Ch 6:61, and expressed 1Ch 6:64.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

The twenty-three cities that belonged to the sons of Kohath are now followed by the thirteen due to the sons of Gershom, taken from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and half Manasseh. The fact only is stated here, the details being supplied in vers. 71-76. And it is easily to be seen that, as from the most important tribes were levied the cities for Levites first in precedence, so the same principle is observed to the end.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

To the sons of Merari who remained, from the tribe of Zebulun i.e., those who did not receive those twelve cities that Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun gave them, and this is the meaning of “who remained from the tribe of Zebzulun”: i.e., from the share of Zebulun, they [the tribe of Naphtali] gave to the remaining sons of Merari.

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.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gêrᵉshôm (“Gershom”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Gershom” (Gêrᵉshôm) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Exodus 2:22, which shares the word «Gershom», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “staff” (4× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. 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?
  5. Compare how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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