וְרֶ֣פַח בְּנ֗וֹ וְרֶ֧שֶׁף וְתֶ֛לַח בְּנ֖וֹ וְתַ֥חַן בְּנֽוֹ
Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 7:25
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 7:25 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
Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
Highlights
- 3 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 3 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.
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
Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Rephah, his son, and Resheph, and Telah, his son, and Tahan, his son,
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
Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Additionally, Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Additionally, Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Rephah was his sonne, and Resheph, and Telah his sonne, and Tahan his sonne,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Rapha was his son, and Reseph, and Thale, of whom was born Thaan,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Rephah `is' his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Rephah [is] his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
His son was Rephah. Rephah's son was Resheph. Resheph's son was Telah. Telah's son was Tahan.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Rephah, his son, and Resheph, and Telah, his son, and Tahan, his son,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And his son was Rephah, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Rephah was his son, and Resheph; his son was Telah, and his son was Tahan;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son;
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וְרֶ֣פַח
Rephach
H7506
“and · Rephah”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Rephah = "healing of the breath"
- son of Ephraim and a ancestor of Joshua
- וְרֶ֣פַח Rephach H7506 “and · Rephah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- בְּנ֗וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְרֶ֧שֶׁף Resheph H7566 “and · Resheph” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְתֶ֛לַח Telach H8520 “and · Telah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- בְּנ֖וֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְתַ֥חַן Tachan H8465 “and · Tahan” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- בְּנֽוֹ bên H1121 “son · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 →
- 7
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
3 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
וְתַ֥חַן Tahan H8465 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 7 nouns
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- בְּנ֗וֹ son H1121 ×3
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 12 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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ραφη υἱός αὐτός ρασεφ καί θαλε υἱός αὐτός θαεν υἱός αὐτός
and Raphe his son, Saraph and Thalees his sons, Thaen his son.
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 7 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Rephach (“Rephah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Rephach carries the sense “Rephah.” How does it shape the verse?
- 3 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- 3 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does Numbers 26:35, which shares the word «Tahan», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “son” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 3 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
- “son” occurs 3× in this single verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:25 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 →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.)
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.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.