1 Chronicles 7:8

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 7:8 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.
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The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
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  • 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Beker: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jeremoth and Abijah,and Anathoth and Alemeth. All of these [were} the sons of Beker,

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were Becher’s sons.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were Becher’s sons.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the sons of Becher; Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the sonnes of Becher, Zemirah, and Ioash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Ierimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth: all these were the sonnes of Becher.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the sons of Bechor were Zamira, and Joas, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Amai, and Jerimoth, and Abia, and Anathoth, and Almath: all these were the sons of Bechor.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezar, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these `are' sons of Becher,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezar, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these [are] sons of Becher,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Beker's sons were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were his sons.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the sons of Beker: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jeremoth and Abijah,and Anathoth and Alemeth. All of these [were} the sons of Beker,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were the sons of Becher.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. These were all the sons of Beker.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the sons of Becher: Zemirah and Joash and Eliezer and Elioenai and Omri and Jerimoth and Abijah and Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

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זְמִירָ֡ה
Zᵉmîyrâh
H2160
“Zemira”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2158

TWOT: None

Zemira = "song" - one of the sons of Becher, the son of Benjamin
  1. וּבְנֵ֣י bên H1121 “and · sons of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  2. בֶ֗כֶר Beker H1071 “Becher” Noun, Proper
  3. וְיוֹעָ֡שׁ Yôwʻâsh H3135 “and · Joash” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  4. וֶ֠אֱלִיעֶזֶר ʼĔlîyʻezer H461 “and · Eliezer” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  5. וְאֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤י ʼElyᵉhôwʻêynay H454 “and · Elioenai” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  6. וְעָמְרִי֙ ʻOmrîy H6018 “and · Omri” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  7. וִירֵמ֣וֹת Yᵉrîymôwth H3406 “and · Jerimoth” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  8. וַאֲבִיָּ֔ה ʼĂbîyâh H29 “and · Abijah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  9. וַעֲנָת֖וֹת ʻĂnâthôwth H6068 “and · Anathoth” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  10. וְעָלָ֑מֶת ʻÂlemeth H5964 “and · Alemeth” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
  11. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  12. אֵ֖לֶּה ʼêl-leh H428 “these” Pronoun, Demonstrative, Common, Plural
  13. בְּנֵי bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  14. בָֽכֶר Beker H1071 “Becher” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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15
words
13
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

1 hapax legomenon — a word that appears only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:

  • זְמִירָ֡ה Zemira H2160

First appearance in Scripture

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

  • זְמִירָ֡ה Zemira H2160
  • וְיוֹעָ֡שׁ Joash H3135

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְיוֹעָ֡שׁ Joash H3135 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 14 nouns
  • 1 pronoun

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וּבְנֵ֣י son H1121 ×2
  • בֶ֗כֶר Becher H1071 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 28 words from the Hebrew and 29 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 24 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 7:8 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֣י בֶ֗כֶר זְמִירָ֡ה וְיוֹעָ֡שׁ וֶ֠אֱלִיעֶזֶר וְאֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤י וְעָמְרִי֙ וִירֵמ֣וֹת וַאֲבִיָּ֔ה וַעֲנָת֖וֹת וְעָלָ֑מֶת כָּל אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵי בָֽכֶר

The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 7:8 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός βαχιρ ζαμαριας καί ιωας καί ελιεζερ καί ελιθεναν καί αμαρια καί ιεριμωθ καί αβιου καί αναθωθ καί γεμεεθ πᾶς οὗτος υἱός βαχιρ

And the sons of Bachir; Zemira, and Joas, and Eliezer, and Elithenan, and Amaria, and Jerimuth, and Abiud, and Anathoth, and Eleemeth: all these were the sons of Bachir.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 7:8 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

(8) Nine sons of Becher.

The sons of Becher.—See Note on 1Ch_7:6. The nine Benjamite houses here enumerated might have been known as “sons of the firstborn.” They are nowhere else recorded. The remarkable name Elioenai is frequent in the Chronicles. (See 1Ch_3:23; 1Ch_4:36; 1Ch_7:8; Ezr_10:22; Ezr_10:27; uncontracted, Eliohenai, 1Ch_26:3, Ezr_8:4.)

Anathoth and Alameth (Alemeth) were Levitical towns in Benjamin (1Ch_6:60).

Jerimoth, or Jeremoth (a son of Bela, 1Ch_7:7), looks like another local name. (Comp. Jarmuth and Ramoth.) It also occurs often in the Chronicles (eight or nine times). The clans may have borne the names of their seats.

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

8. Anathoth, and Alameth] both names of places; 1Ch_6:60 (45, Heb., “Allemeth”); Jer_1:1. Descendants of Bela inhabited these towns.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

The sons also of Jediael,.... The third son of Benjamin before mentioned, Ch1 7:6. Bilhan, including his posterity, as follows:

and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin; called so after his great grandfather:

and Ehud; who was the second judge in Israel, Jdg 3:15.

and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar; of whom we nowhere else read.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Pulpit Commentary

Joash. This name, of which nothing else is known, is spelt with an ayin, not with an aleph, as are the names of the seven other persons called (Authorized Version) Joash. Jerimoth. This name is spelt with a tsere, and not, as the Jerimoth of ver. 7, with khirik. All the names of this verse must be regarded as those of heads of families, and not the literal sons of Becher.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

The sons also of Jediael,.... The third son of Benjamin before mentioned, Ch1 7:6. Bilhan, including his posterity, as follows:

and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin; called so after his great grandfather:

and Ehud; who was the second judge in Israel, Jdg 3:15.

and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar; of whom we nowhere else read.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

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General Information:

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

20,200 heads of their fathers' houses

"twenty thousand two hundred family leaders" (See: Numbers)

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family

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Zᵉmîyrâh (“Zemira”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Zᵉmîyrâh carries the sense “Zemira.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. This verse holds 1 word here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare word draw attention to?
  3. 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  4. 1 Chronicles 27:28 shares the word «Joash» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  5. “son” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  6. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  7. Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

  • 1 word in this verse appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
  • 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
  • This verse counts 15 Hebrew ↔ 24 Greek words.
  • These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
  • “son” occurs 2× in this single verse.

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