וְיִשְׁמְרַ֧י וְיִזְלִיאָ֛ה וְיוֹבָ֖ב בְּנֵ֥י אֶלְפָּֽעַל
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 8:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 8:18 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
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
Highlights
- 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
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King James Version Public Domain
Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab the sons of Elpaal.
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
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
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King James Version Public Domain
Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Ishmerai and Izliah, and Iobab, the sonnes of Elpaal,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Jesamari, and Jezlia, and Jobab, sons of Elphaal,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Ishmerai, and Jezliah, and Jobab, sons of Elpaal;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ishmerai, and Jezliah, and Jobab, sons of Elpaal;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab the sons of Elpaal.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Jishmerai, and Jizliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, were the sons of Elpaal.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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וְיִשְׁמְרַ֧י
Yishmᵉray
H3461
“and · Ishmerai”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Ishmerai = "He keeps me"
- a Benjamite of the family of Elpaal
- וְיִשְׁמְרַ֧י Yishmᵉray H3461 “and · Ishmerai” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְיִזְלִיאָ֛ה Yizlîyʼâh H3152 “and · Jezliah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְיוֹבָ֖ב Yôwbâb H3103 “and · Jobab” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- אֶלְפָּֽעַל ʼElpaʻal H508 “Elpaal” 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 →
- 5
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
2 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
אֶלְפָּֽעַל Elpaal H508 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 10 words from the Hebrew and 10 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 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.
καί ισαμαρι καί ιεζλια καί ιωβαβ υἱός ελφααλ
and Isamari, and Jexlias, and Jobab, the sons of Elphaal:
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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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 Yishmᵉray (“Ishmerai”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Ishmerai” (Yishmᵉray) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This verse holds 2 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
- 2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
- 1 Chronicles 8:11 shares the word «Elpaal» 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?
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 3 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.