בְּנֵ֖י צוֹפָ֑ח ס֧וּחַ וְחַרְנֶ֛פֶר וְשׁוּעָ֖ל וּבֵרִ֥י וְיִמְרָֽה
The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 7:36
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 7:36 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 Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
Highlights
- 4 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 4 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 Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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King James Version Public Domain
The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah,
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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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 Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
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King James Version Public Domain
The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The sonnes of Zophah, Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The sons of Supha: Sue, Hernapher, and Sual, and Beri, and Jamra.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Zophah's sons were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Jimrah,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shaul, and Beri, and Imrah;
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ס֧וּחַ
Çûwach
H5477
“Suah”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Suah = "sweeping"
- an Asherite, son of Zophah
- בְּנֵ֖י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- צוֹפָ֑ח Tsôwphach H6690 “Zophah” Noun, Proper
- ס֧וּחַ Çûwach H5477 “Suah” Noun, Proper
- וְחַרְנֶ֛פֶר Charnepher H2774 “and · Harnepher” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְשׁוּעָ֖ל Shûwʻâl H7777 “and · Shual” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וּבֵרִ֥י Bêrîy H1275 “and · Beri” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְיִמְרָֽה Yimrâh H3236 “and · Imrah” 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
צוֹפָ֑ח 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 13 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
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 10 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.
υἱός σωφα χουχι αρναφαρ καί σουαλ καί βαρι καί ιμαρη
The sons of Sopha; Sue, and Arnaphar, and Suda, and Barin, and Imran,
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 Çûwach (“Suah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Çûwach carries the sense “Suah.” How does it shape the verse?
- 4 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
- 4 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does 1 Chronicles 7:35, which shares the word «Zophah», read alongside this verse?
- Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 4 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 4 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:36 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 →
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.
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.
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.