מְרָיוֹת֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת אֲמַרְיָ֔ה וַאֲמַרְיָ֖ה הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת אֲחִיטֽוּב
Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 6:7
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:7 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
Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,
Highlights
- 1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible
- Septuagint runs shorter here — compare
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,
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King James Version Public Domain
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Meraioth fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub.
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
Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Meraioth was the father of Amariah, Amariah was the father of Ahitub,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Meraioth was the father of Amariah, Amariah was the father of Ahitub,
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King James Version Public Domain
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Meraioth begate Amariah, and Amariah begate Ahitub,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Maraioth beget Amarias, and Amarias beget Achitob.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Meraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Meraioth fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Meraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Meraioth was the father of Amariah, Amariah was the father of Ahitub,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
(5-33) Meraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub;
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מְרָיוֹת֙
Mᵉrâyôwth
H4812
“Meraioth”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 1 Chronicles 6:6
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Meraioth = "rebellious"
- grandfather of Ahitub, descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and the head of a priestly house
- son of Ahitub, father of Zadok, descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and the head of a priestly house
- head of a family of priests represented by Helkai in the time of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua
- מְרָיוֹת֙ Mᵉrâyôwth H4812 “Meraioth” Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֣יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אֲמַרְיָ֔ה ʼĂmaryâh H568 “Amariah” Noun, Proper
- וַאֲמַרְיָ֖ה ʼĂmaryâh H568 “and · Amariah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֥יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אֲחִיטֽוּב ʼĂchîyṭûwb H285 “Ahitub” 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
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מְרָיוֹת֙ Meraioth H4812 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- אֲמַרְיָ֔ה Amariah H568
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מְרָיוֹת֙ Meraioth H4812 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- הוֹלִ֣יד Hiphil · Perfect
- הוֹלִ֥יד Hiphil · Perfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 8 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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 11 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.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 8 words vs World English Bible 13. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
υἱός κααθ αμιναδαβ υἱός αὐτός κορε υἱός αὐτός ασιρ υἱός αὐτός
and Mariel begot Amaria, and Amaria begot Achitob;
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 (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉrâyôwth (“Meraioth”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Meraioth” (Mᵉrâyôwth) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- The word “Amariah” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 1 Chronicles 6:6 shares the word «Meraioth» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “to bear” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
- 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?
- The verb «הוֹלִ֣יד» is Hiphil Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- “to bear” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:7 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 →
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