1 Chronicles 7:37

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

3 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
3 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וָה֗וֹד

Hôwd

H1936

“and · Hod”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: the same as H1935

TWOT: None

Hod = "splendour" - one of the sons of Zophah, among the descendants of Asher

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 →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

3 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

וָה֗וֹד Hod H1936
וְשִׁלְשָׁ֛ה Shilshah H8030
וּבְאֵרָֽא Beera H878

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וָה֗וֹד Hod H1936
וְשִׁלְשָׁ֛ה Shilshah H8030
וּבְאֵרָֽא Beera H878

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְשַׁמָּ֧א Shamma H8037 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

2 Samuel 23:11

Grammatical profile

6 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 11 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 6 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.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 7:37 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

בֶּ֣צֶר וָה֗וֹד וְשַׁמָּ֧א וְשִׁלְשָׁ֛ה וְיִתְרָ֖ן וּבְאֵרָֽא

Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 7:37 Septuagint · lemma form

σοβαλ καί ωδ καί σεμμα καί σαλισα καί ιεθραν καί βεηρα

and Basan, and Oa, and Sama, and Salisa, and Jethra, and Beera.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:37 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.

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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Jethran. Septuagint, Jether," as v. seq.[as in the following verse, ver. 38.]

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).

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Hôwd (“Hod”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word Hôwd carries the sense “Hod.” How does it shape the verse?
This verse holds 3 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
3 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
2 Samuel 23:11 shares the word «Shamma» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?

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 6 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.