וּמִֽמִּשְׁפְּח֖וֹת בְּנֵ֣י קְהָ֑ת וַיְהִי֙ עָרֵ֣י גְבוּלָ֔ם מִמַּטֵּ֖ה אֶפְרָֽיִם
Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:66
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:66 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
Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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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
Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath, cities of their border were from the tribe of Ephraim.
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
Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
And some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
And some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:
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King James Version Public Domain
And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And they of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities and their coastes out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And to them that were of the kindred of the sons of Caath, and the cities in their borders were of the tribe of Ephraim.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and some of the families of the sons of Kohath have cities of their border from the tribe of Ephraim;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and some of the families of the sons of Kohath have cities of their border from the tribe of Ephraim;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the territory of the tribe of Ephraim.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath, cities of their border were from the tribe of Ephraim.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And to the families of the children of Kohath who had the cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Some of the Kohathite families received as their territory towns from the tribe of Ephraim.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(6-51) And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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קְהָ֑ת
Qᵉhâth
H6955
“Kohath”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 32× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 46:11
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Kohath = "assembly"
- the 2nd of the 3 sons of Levi and progenitor of a family in the tribe of Levi
- וּמִֽמִּשְׁפְּח֖וֹת mishpâchâh H4940 “and · from · families of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
- בְּנֵ֣י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- קְהָ֑ת Qᵉhâth H6955 “Kohath” Noun, Proper
- וַיְהִי֙ hâyâh H1961 “and · to be” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- עָרֵ֣י ʻîyr H5892 “cities of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
- גְבוּלָ֔ם gᵉbûwl H1366 “border · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- מִמַּטֵּ֖ה maṭṭeh H4294 “from · staff of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- אֶפְרָֽיִם ʼEphrayim H669 “Ephraim” Noun, Proper
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
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קְהָ֑ת Kohath H6955 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 7 nouns
Verb forms
- וַיְהִי֙ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 27 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
1Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:66 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Joshua 21:20–26 The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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 εσεβων καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός καί ὁ ιαζηρ καί ὁ περισπόριον αὐτός
And to the members of the families of the sons of Caath there were also given the cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Qᵉhâth (“Kohath”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Kohath” (Qᵉhâth) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Genesis 46:11, which shares the word «Kohath», read alongside 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?
- «וַיְהִי֙» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 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 9 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:66 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 →
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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).
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.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.