1 Chronicles 7:38

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

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

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וּפִסְפָּ֖ה

Piçpâh

H6462

“and · Pispah”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: perhaps from H6461

TWOT: None

Pispah = "disappearance" - a son of Jether from the tribe 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 →

5: words
5: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

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

וּפִסְפָּ֖ה Pispah H6462
וַאְרָֽא Ara H690

First appearance in Scripture

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

וּפִסְפָּ֖ה Pispah H6462
וַאְרָֽא Ara H690

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יֶ֑תֶר Jether H3500 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

5 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 5 Hebrew tokens and 8 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 7:38 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֖י יֶ֑תֶר יְפֻנֶּ֥ה וּפִסְפָּ֖ה וַאְרָֽא

The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 7:38 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός ιεθερ ιφινα καί φασφα καί αρα

And the sons of Jether, Jephina, and Phaspha, and Ara.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:38 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(38) The sons of Jether.—Jether and Ithran (1Ch_7:37) are virtually the same name, and perhaps to be identified here. This will connect 1Ch_7:38 with the preceding line of the sons of Zophah.

Jephunneh.—The name of the father of Caleb the Kenizzite.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ch 7:38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.

Ver. 38. Jether.] Called Ithran. {1Ch 7:37}

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.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Jephone. The father of Caleb was of the tribe of Juda. (Calmet)

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 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Piçpâh (“Pispah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Pispah” (Piçpâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
2 words here appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. Why might the author reach for such rare wording?
2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
How does Exodus 4:18, which shares the word «Jether», 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?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 2 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.