וְחֶ֨בֶר֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת יַפְלֵ֔ט וְאֶת שׁוֹמֵ֖ר וְאֶת חוֹתָ֑ם וְאֵ֖ת שׁוּעָ֥א אֲחוֹתָֽם
Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 7:32
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 7:32 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
Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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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
Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Heber fathered Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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
Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Heber begate Iaphlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuah their sister.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Heber beget Jephlat, and Somer, and Hotham, and Suaa their sister.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and their sister Shua.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Heber's sons were Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham. Shua was their sister.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And Heber fathered Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, and of their sister Shua.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
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שׁוֹמֵ֖ר
Shôwmêr
H7763
“Shomer”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at 2 Kings 12:21
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Shomer = "keeper"
- son of Jehozabad or Shimrith the Moabitess and one of the conspirators who slew king Joash of Judah
- an Asherite, son of Heber
- also 'Shemer'
- וְחֶ֨בֶר֙ Cheber H2268 “and · Heber” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- הוֹלִ֣יד yâlad H3205 “to bear” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- יַפְלֵ֔ט Yaphlêṭ H3310 “Japhlet” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- שׁוֹמֵ֖ר Shôwmêr H7763 “Shomer” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- חוֹתָ֑ם Chôwthâm H2369 “Hotham” Noun, Proper
- וְאֵ֖ת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- שׁוּעָ֥א Shûwʻâʼ H7774 “Shua” Noun, Proper
- אֲחוֹתָֽם ʼâchôwth H269 “sister · their” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
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 →
- 11
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is שׁוֹמֵ֖ר Shomer H7763 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שׁוֹמֵ֖ר Shomer H7763 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 6 nouns
- 4 particles
Verb forms
- הוֹלִ֣יד Hiphil · Perfect
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 11 Hebrew tokens and 16 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 χαβερ γεννάω ὁ ιαφαλητ καί ὁ σαμηρ καί ὁ χωθαμ καί ὁ σωλα ἀδελφή αὐτός
And Chaber begot Japhlet, and Samer, and Chothan, and Sola their sister.
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 11 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Shôwmêr (“Shomer”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Shomer” (Shôwmêr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does 2 Kings 12:21, which shares the word «Shomer», 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?
- «הוֹלִ֣יד» is a Hiphil Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:32 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 →
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
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.)