1 Chronicles 6:78

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 6:78 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.
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and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, [were given them], out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, [were given them], out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and from across the Jordan Jericho, to the east of the Jordan: from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness and its pasturelands and Jahzah and its 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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, [were given them], out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    From the tribe of Reuben east of the Jordan opposite Jericho they were given Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    From the tribe of Reuben east of the Jordan opposite Jericho they were given Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, `were given them', out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And on the other side Iorden by Iericho, euen on the Eastside of Iorden, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wildernesse with her suburbes, and Iahzah with her suburbes,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Beyond the Jordan also over against Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Ruben, Bosor in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jassa with its suburbs;
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and from beyond the Jordan by Jericho, at the east of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and from beyond the Jordan by Jericho, at the east of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and its outskirts, and Jahzah and its outskirts,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    and from the tribe of Reuben, across the Jordan on the east side of Jericho, they received Bezer in the desert, Jahzah,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and from across the Jordan Jericho, to the east of the Jordan: from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness and its pasturelands and Jahzah and its pasturelands
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And on the other side of Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    from the tribe of Reuben on the east side of the Jordan opposite Jericho: Bezer (in the desert), Jahzah,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts,
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    (6-63) and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with the open land about it, and Jahaz with the open land about it,

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בֶּ֥צֶר
Betser
H1221
“Bezer”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H1220

TWOT: None

Bezer = "gold ore" or " remote fortress" - son of Zophah, one of the heads of the houses of Asher (noun proper masculine) - a city of refuge in Reuben in the downs on the east of the Jordan (noun proper locative)
  1. וּמֵעֵ֜בֶר ʻêber H5676 “and · from · side” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  2. לְיַרְדֵּ֣ן Yardên H3383 “to/for · Jordan” Preposition + Noun, Proper
  3. יְרֵחוֹ֮ Yᵉrîychôw H3405 “Jericho” Noun, Proper
  4. לְמִזְרַ֣ח mizrâch H4217 “to/for · east of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  5. הַיַּרְדֵּן֒ Yardên H3383 “the · Jordan” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
  6. מִמַּטֵּ֣ה maṭṭeh H4294 “from · staff of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  7. רְאוּבֵ֔ן Rᵉʼûwbên H7205 “Reuben” Noun, Proper
  8. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  9. בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר midbâr H4057 “in/at the · wilderness” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  11. מִגְרָשֶׁ֑יהָ migrâsh H4054 “common lands · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
  12. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  13. יַ֖הְצָה Yahats H3096 “Jahaz · toward” Noun, Proper + Suffix, Demonstrative
  14. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  15. מִגְרָשֶֽׁיהָ migrâsh H4054 “common lands · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular

About this verse

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16
words
11
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בֶּ֥צֶר Bezer H1221 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בֶּ֥צֶר Bezer H1221 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 12 nouns
  • 4 particles

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • לְיַרְדֵּ֣ן Jordan H3383 ×2
  • מִגְרָשֶׁ֑יהָ common land H4054 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 34 words from the Hebrew and 28 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

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 6:78 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Joshua 20:8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
  • Deuteronomy 4:41–43 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
  • Joshua 21:36–37 Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 6:78 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמֵעֵ֜בֶר לְיַרְדֵּ֣ן יְרֵחוֹ֮ לְמִזְרַ֣ח הַיַּרְדֵּן֒ מִמַּטֵּ֣ה רְאוּבֵ֔ן אֶת בֶּ֥צֶר בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶׁ֑יהָ וְאֶת יַ֖הְצָה וְאֶת מִגְרָשֶֽׁיהָ

and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, [were given them], out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 6:78 Septuagint · lemma form
out of the country beyond Jordan; Jericho westward of Jordan: out of the tribe of Ruben; Bosor in the wilderness and her suburbs, and Jasa and her suburbs,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:78 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

78. by Jericho] The crossing-place of the Jordan nearest to Reuben was at Jericho. For the phrase Jordan by Jericho cp. Jos_16:1.

in the wilderness] further defined by the addition in the table-land (Deu_4:43, R.V. mg.). Bezer was among the high pasture lands of Reuben. It was a city of refuge.

Jahzah] also called Jahaz. Cp. Jdg_11:20; Isa_15:4.

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.

The Pulpit Commentary

Bezer. The full description of the place is "Bezer in the wilderness, in the land of the Mishor", (Deu_4:43) and "Bezer in the wilderness, in the Mishor," i.e. "the plain," or as some, "the downs". (Jos_20:8) This, as mentioned above, was one of the three cities of refuge east of the Jordan. Jahzah. (Authorized Version, Jos_21:36, Jahazah)

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

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 16 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Betser (“Bezer”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Bezer” (Betser) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Deuteronomy 4:43 shares the word «Bezer» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “Jordan” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  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. Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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