1 Chronicles 6:68

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,

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יָקְמְעָם֙

Yoqmᵉʻâm

H3361

“Jokmeam”

Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Kings 4:12

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H6965 and H5971

TWOT: None

Jokmeam = "gathered by the people" - a city of refuge in Ephraim given to the Kohathite Levites

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 יָקְמְעָם֙ Jokmeam H3361 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יָקְמְעָם֙ Jokmeam H3361 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

1 Kings 4:12

Grammatical profile

5 nouns
4 particles

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ common land H4054 ×2
בֵּ֥ית Beth-horon H1032 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 11 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:68 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Joshua 10:11 It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
Joshua 16:5 The border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper;
Joshua 21:22 and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities.
1 Samuel 13:18 and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1 Kings 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

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.

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:68 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶֽת יָקְמְעָם֙ וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֔יהָ וְאֶת בֵּ֥ית חוֹר֖וֹן וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶֽׁיהָ

and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:68 Septuagint · lemma form

and Jecmaan and her suburbs, and Baethoron and her suburbs,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 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 6:68 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(68) Jokmeam.—Joshua has Kibzaim, a name omitted by the LXX. Vatic. Jokmeam is probably right. The other might easily be a misreading of it, owing to confusion of similar letters. The site is unknown. The four cities of 1Ch_6:67-68 lay in Ephraim. Beth-horon, Gibeon, and Aijalon, the scenes of the great and providentially determined overthrow of the five kings of the Amorites, were appropriately assigned to the sacred tribe of Levi.

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

68. Jokmeam] In Jos_21:22 Kibzaim. The two words resemble one another more closely in Hebrew, and are to be taken as various readings of the same name. Nothing is known of a Kibzaim in Ephraim. A Jokmeam is mentioned 1Ki_4:12.

Beth-horon] Jos_10:10-11; Jos_16:3; Jos_16:5; 1Ma_3:24. There were two cities, a lower and an upper Beth-horon, to which at the present day a lower and an upper Beitur, an hour’s journey apart, correspond. Bädeker, p. 18.

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

Jecmaan, or Cibsaim, (Josue) as Helon is put for Aialon below. And of the tribe of Dan, Eltheco and Gabathon is omitted. See Josue xxi. 23.

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).

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

Jokmeam

See Jos 21:22-35 where many of these cities have other names:

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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 Yoqmᵉʻâm (“Jokmeam”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Yoqmᵉʻâm carries the sense “Jokmeam.” How does it shape the verse?
How does 1 Kings 4:12, which shares the word «Jokmeam», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “common land” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
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

These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
“common land” occurs 2× in this single verse.
4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.