1 Chronicles 7:39

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Highlights

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

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עֻלָּ֑א

ʻUllâʼ

H5925

“Ulla”

Noun, Proper

Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: fem. of H5923

TWOT: None

Ulla = "yoke" - an Asherite, head of a family in his tribe

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:

עֻלָּ֑א Ulla H5925
וְרִצְיָֽא Rezia H7525

First appearance in Scripture

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

עֻלָּ֑א Ulla H5925
אָרַ֥ח Arah H733
וְרִצְיָֽא Rezia H7525

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְחַנִּיאֵ֖ל Hanniel H2592 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Numbers 34:23

Grammatical profile

5 nouns

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 9 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 5 Hebrew tokens and 7 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 7:39 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֖י עֻלָּ֑א אָרַ֥ח וְחַנִּיאֵ֖ל וְרִצְיָֽא

The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 7:39 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός ωλα ορεχ ανιηλ καί ρασια

And the sons of Ola; Orech, Aniel, and Rasia.

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 7:39 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

(39) The sons of Ulla.—Apparently Ulla is not connected with the foregoing genealogy. But he seems to be the same as Ara (1Ch_7:38). ‘Arâ’ is a very curious form, and may be due to a copyist’s eye having wandered to Be-era at the end of last verse; ‘Ullâ’ is intelligible, and probably correct. If the identification be allowed, we get a complete concatenation from 1Ch_7:30-39.

Arah is in Hebrew quite different from Ara.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Ulla; another son of Jether, as may be gathered by the course of the genealogy, though he be not expressed with his brethren, 1Ch 7:38. See the like defect 1Ch 7:18,34.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Ulla. Whether in this verse we get to the eighth generation depends on who may be meant by Ulla. It is impossible to answer the question. The suggestion has been made that the name may, by some great error of copyists, stand for either Zophah"s last son Beera, or, by happier conjecture, Jether"s last son, Ara. But neither professes to be anything better than mere conjecture.

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

General Information:

All of the names here are the names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)

distinguished men

"important men"

fathers' houses

extended families, people related to each other who usually lived in different houses, what the UDB calls "clans"

There were twenty-six thousand men listed who were fit for military service, according to their numbered lists

"According to the clan records, there were 26,000 men who were able to serve in the military" (See: Numbers)

translationWords

descend

clan

family

chief

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

Discussion questions

How does “Ulla” (ʻUllâʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
This verse holds 2 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?
Numbers 34:23 shares the word «Hanniel» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and Matthew Poole's English Annotations read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

2 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 5 Hebrew ↔ 7 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.