וַיּ֖וֹלֶד מִן חֹ֣דֶשׁ אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ אֶת יוֹבָב֙ וְאֶת צִבְיָ֔א וְאֶת מֵישָׁ֖א וְאֶת מַלְכָּֽם
He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 8:9
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 8:9 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
He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,
Highlights
- 3 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 3 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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Compare translations 3
The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,
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King James Version Public Domain
And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And by Hodesh his wife he fathered Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malkam
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
He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
His sons by his wife Hodesh: Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
His sons by his wife Hodesh: Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
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King James Version Public Domain
And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
He begate, I say, of Hodesh his wife, Iobab and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he beget of Hodes his wife Jobab, and Sebia, and Mesa, and Molchom,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he begetteth of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he begets of his wife Hodesh: Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
By his wife Hodesh, Shaharaim became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malkam,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And by Hodesh his wife he fathered Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malkam
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he begot of Hodesh his wife: Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
By Hodesh his wife, he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He married Hodesh and had Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
he begot of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam;
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חֹ֣דֶשׁ
Chôdesh
H2321
“Hodesh”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Hodesh = "new moon"
- the wife of Shaharaim, a Benjamite
- וַיּ֖וֹלֶד yâlad H3205 “and · to bear” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מִן min H4480 “from” Preposition
- חֹ֣דֶשׁ Chôdesh H2321 “Hodesh” Noun, Proper
- אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ ʼishshâh H802 “woman · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- יוֹבָב֙ Yôwbâb H3103 “Jobab” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- צִבְיָ֔א Tsibyâʼ H6644 “Zibia” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מֵישָׁ֖א Mêyshâʼ H4331 “Mesha” Noun, Proper
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מַלְכָּֽם Malkâm H4445 “Milcom” 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 →
- 12
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
3 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
מַלְכָּֽם Milcom H4445 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 6 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 4 particles
Verb forms
- וַיּ֖וֹלֶד Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 14 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 12 Hebrew tokens and 18 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 γεννάω ἐκ ὁ αδα γυνή αὐτός ὁ ιωβαβ καί ὁ σεβια καί ὁ μισα καί ὁ μελχαμ
And he begot of his wife Ada, Jolab, and Sebia, and Misa, and Melchas,
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 →
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 12 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chôdesh (“Hodesh”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “Hodesh” (Chôdesh) shape what this verse is saying?
- This verse holds 3 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?
- 1 Kings 11:5 shares the word «Milcom» 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?
- The verb «וַיּ֖וֹלֶד» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Adam Clarke's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- 3 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 8:9 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 →
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
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
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
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.)