וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לַלְוִיִּ֑ם אֶת הֶעָרִ֖ים וְאֶת מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽם
The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:64
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:64 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
The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
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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
The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their 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
The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Thus the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities with their suburbes.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And the sons of Israel give to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Israel give the cities and their outskirts to the Levites.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
So the people of Israel gave these cities with their pasturelands to the Levites.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their pasturelands.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
So the people of Israel gave the Levites these towns and their pasturelands.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-49) So the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with the open land about them.
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מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽם
migrâsh
H4054
“common lands · their”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- Appears 115× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Leviticus 25:34
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
common, common land, open land, suburb
- וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- בְנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
- לַלְוִיִּ֑ם Lêvîyîy H3881 “to/for the · Levites” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הֶעָרִ֖ים ʻîyr H5892 “the · cities” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽם migrâsh H4054 “common lands · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
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
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 14 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
3Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:64 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 21:41–42 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:3 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.
- Numbers 35:1–8 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
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 καδημωθ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ μωφααθ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός
So the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their 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 (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is migrâsh (“common land”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “common land” (migrâsh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Joshua 21:41–42, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- «וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:64 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
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.