וַעֲדָיָ֧ה וּבְרָאיָ֛ה וְשִׁמְרָ֖ת בְּנֵ֥י שִׁמְעִֽי
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 8:21
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 8:21 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 Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
Highlights
- 2 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
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King James Version Public Domain
And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath the sons of Shimei.
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 Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.
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King James Version Public Domain
And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrah the sonnes of Shimei,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Adaia, and Baraia, and Samareth, the sons of Semei.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, sons of Shimei;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, sons of Shimei;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath the sons of Shimei.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Adaiah, Beraiah, Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, were the sons of Shimei.
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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וּבְרָאיָ֛ה
Bᵉrâʼyâh
H1256
“and · Beraiah”
Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Beraiah = "Jehovah has created"
- son of Shimhi, a chief man of Benjamin
- וַעֲדָיָ֧ה ʻĂdâyâh H5718 “and · Adaiah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וּבְרָאיָ֛ה Bᵉrâʼyâh H1256 “and · Beraiah” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- וְשִׁמְרָ֖ת Shimrâth H8119 “and · Shimrath” Conjunction + Noun, Proper
- בְּנֵ֥י bên H1121 “sons of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- שִׁמְעִֽי Shimʻîy H8096 “Shimei” 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
וַעֲדָיָ֧ה Adaiah H5718 occurs in 9 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 11 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.
καί αδαια καί βαραια καί σαμαραθ υἱός σαμαϊ
and Elieli, and Adaia, and Baraia, and Samarath, sons of Samaith:
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 →
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 Bᵉrâʼyâh (“Beraiah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word Bᵉrâʼyâh carries the sense “Beraiah.” How does it shape the verse?
- 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?
- 2 Kings 22:1 shares the word «Adaiah» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Reading how Geneva Bible (1599) and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 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.
- 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.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 8:21 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.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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).