וּבֶן הֵ֖לֶם אָחִ֑יו צוֹפַ֥ח וְיִמְנָ֖ע וְשֵׁ֥לֶשׁ וְעָמָֽל
The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 7:35
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 7:35 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
The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
Highlights
- 4 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 5 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
The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Helem, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal.
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
The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
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King James Version Public Domain
And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the sons of Helem his brother; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And the sonnes of his brother Helem were Zophah, and Iimna, and Shelesh and Amal.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the sons of Helem his brother: Supha, and Jemna, and Selles, and Amal.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And son of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And [each] son of his brother Helem: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Shemer's brother, Helem, had these sons: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Helem, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And the sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, and Jimna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And the sons of Hotham, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And the sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
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הֵ֖לֶם
Helem
H1987
“Helem”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Helem = "smiter"
- a descendant of Asher
- וּבֶן bên H1121 “and · son of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הֵ֖לֶם Helem H1987 “Helem” Noun, Proper
- אָחִ֑יו ʼâch H251 “brother · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- צוֹפַ֥ח Tsôwphach H6690 “Zophah” Noun, Proper
- וְיִמְנָ֖ע Yimnâʻ H3234 “and · Imna” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְשֵׁ֥לֶשׁ Shelesh H8028 “and · Shelesh” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְעָמָֽל ʻÂmâl H6000 “and · Amal” Conjunction + 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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
4 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
צוֹפַ֥ח Zophah H6690 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 7 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 14 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 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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί βανηελαμ ἀδελφός αὐτός σωφα καί ιμανα καί σελλης καί αμαλ
And the sons of Elam his brother; Sopha, and Imana, and Selles, and Amal.
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 (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Helem (“Helem”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Helem” (Helem) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This verse holds 4 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
- 5 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 1 Chronicles 7:36 shares the word «Zophah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 4 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 5 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:35 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.
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.