וַאֲחֹת֖וֹ הַמֹּלֶ֑כֶת יָלְדָה֙ אֶת אִישְׁה֔וֹד וְאֶת אֲבִיעֶ֖זֶר וְאֶת מַחְלָֽה
His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 7:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 7:18 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
His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
Highlights
- 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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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
His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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King James Version Public Domain
And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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King James Version Public Domain
And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And his sister Molecheth bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And his sister named Queen bore Goodlyman, and Abiezer, and Mohola.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Gilead's sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And his sister Moleketh bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
His sister Hammoleketh was the mother of Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And his sister Hammoleketh was the mother of Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ish-hod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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הַמֹּלֶ֑כֶת
Môleketh
H4447
“the · Hammoleketh”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Hammoleketh = "the queen"
- daughter of Machir and sister of Gilead
- וַאֲחֹת֖וֹ ʼâchôwth H269 “and · sister · his” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַמֹּלֶ֑כֶת Môleketh H4447 “the · Hammoleketh” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
- יָלְדָה֙ yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- אִישְׁה֔וֹד ʼÎyshᵉhôwd H379 “Ishod” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- אֲבִיעֶ֖זֶר ʼĂbîyʻezer H44 “Abiezer” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מַחְלָֽה Machlâh H4244 “Mahlah” 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 →
- 9
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
2 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מַחְלָֽה Mahlah H4244 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
- 3 particles
Verb forms
- יָלְדָה֙ Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 9 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.
In the original languages it is 9 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
5Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 7:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Numbers 26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: [of] Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
- Judges 6:11 The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
- Judges 6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
- Judges 6:34 But the Spirit of Yahweh came on Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together after him.
- Judges 8:2 He said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
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 ἀδελφή αὐτός ὁ μαλεχεθ τίκτω ὁ ισαδεκ καί ὁ αβιεζερ καί ὁ μαελα
And his sister Malecheth bore Isud, and Abiezer, and Maela.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 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 →
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 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Môleketh (“Hammoleketh”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Hammoleketh” (Môleketh) shape what this verse is saying?
- 2 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does Numbers 26:33, which shares the word «Mahlah», 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?
- «יָלְדָה֙» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:18 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 →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)