1 Chronicles 9:29

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Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And from them ones appointed over the vessels, even over all of the vessels of the Holy Place, and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Others were put in charge of the furnishings and other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Others were put in charge of the furnishings and other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Some of them also were appoynted ouer the instruments, and ouer all the vessels of the Sanctuarie, and of the floure, and the wine, and the oyle, and the incense, and the sweete odours.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Some of them also had the instruments of the sanctuary committed unto them, and the charge of the fine flour, and wine, and oil, and frankincense, and spices.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And `some' of them are appointed over the vessels, even over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And [some] of them are appointed over the vessels, even over all the vessels of the holy place, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Some of them also were assigned to take care of the holy things, the equipment, and the supplies, including the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And from them ones appointed over the vessels, even over all of the vessels of the Holy Place, and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    [Part] of them also were appointed over the vessels, and over all the holy instruments, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Others were given the job of looking after the furniture and equipment used in the sanctuary, as well as the special flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

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וְהַלְּבוֹנָ֖ה
lᵉbôwnâh
H3828
“and · the · frankincense”
Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3836

TWOT: 1074d

frankincense - a white resin burned as fragrant incense - ceremonially - personally - used in compounding the holy incense
  1. מְמֻנִּים֙ mânâh H4487 “counted” Verb, Pual, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  2. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  3. הַכֵּלִ֔ים kᵉlîy H3627 “the · vessels” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  4. וְעַ֖ל ʻal H5921 “and · upon” Conjunction + Preposition
  5. כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  6. כְּלֵ֣י kᵉlîy H3627 “vessels of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  7. הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ qôdesh H6944 “the · holiness” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וְעַל ʻal H5921 “and · upon” Conjunction + Preposition
  9. הַסֹּ֨לֶת֙ çôleth H5560 “the · fine flour” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  10. וְהַיַּ֣יִן yayin H3196 “and · the · wine” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  11. וְהַשֶּׁ֔מֶן shemen H8081 “and · the · fat” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  12. וְהַבְּשָׂמִֽים besem H1314 “and · the · spices” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

About this verse

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14
words
10
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְהַלְּבוֹנָ֖ה frankincense H3828 — appearing just 21 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְהַלְּבוֹנָ֖ה frankincense H3828 occurs in 21 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 9 nouns
  • 4 prepositions

Verb forms

  • מְמֻנִּים֙ Pual · Participle Passive

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • עַל upon H5921 ×3
  • הַכֵּלִ֔ים vessel H3627 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 34 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 14 Hebrew tokens and 27 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.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 9:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:29 for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size;
  • Exodus 27:20 "You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
  • Exodus 30:23–38 "Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 9:29 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמֵהֶ֗ם מְמֻנִּים֙ עַל הַכֵּלִ֔ים וְעַ֖ל כָּל כְּלֵ֣י הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ וְעַל הַסֹּ֨לֶת֙ וְהַיַּ֣יִן וְהַשֶּׁ֔מֶן וְהַלְּבוֹנָ֖ה וְהַבְּשָׂמִֽים

Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 9:29 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐκ αὐτός καταἵστημι ἐπί ὁ σκεῦος καί ἐπί πᾶς ὁ σκεῦος ὁ ἅγιος καί ἐπί ὁ σεμίδαλις ὁ οἶνος ὁ ἔλαιον ὁ λιβανωτός καί ὁ ἄρωμα

And some of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 9:29 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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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Whereof the meat offering was made, Lev. 1:8.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(29) Care of the ordinary vessels; that is, all those which were used in the daily service of the sanctuary (“vessels . . . instruments:” the same Hebrew term, kélîm, vasa, σκεύη); as also supervision of the stores of flour, wine, oil, incense, and spicery, which were adjuncts of meat offerings and libations, and the holy unguents (Exo_25:6).

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

29. to oversee the vessels] R.V. over the furniture.

all the instruments] R.V. over all the vessels.

the fine flour] R.V. over the fine flour. Cp. 1Ch_23:29.

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

And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites,.... Others of them were employed in singing, and were masters of the song, and presided in that service, see Ch1 6:31 who remaining

in the chambers were free; from all other work and service; and there they abode, even in the chambers of the temple, that they might be near to perform their work, and not be defiled, and made unfit for it:

for they were employed in that work day and night; some or other of them, either in composing or singing psalms and hymns, or teaching others how to sing them.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

29. All the instruments of the sanctuary — Such as are enumerated in 1Ki_7:45-50.

Fine flour… wine… oil… frankincense… spices — Compare Exo_25:6; Exo_29:40; Exo_30:23-38; Lev_2:2; Lev_23:13; Num_15:5.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Vers. 29, 30. The vessels and other things required for the daily sacrificial service are here spoken of; the verses receive abundant illustration from various Old Testament passages (Exo_25:6 Exo_30:23 Lev_2:1-7, etc.)

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

And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites,.... Others of them were employed in singing, and were masters of the song, and presided in that service, see Ch1 6:31 who remaining

in the chambers were free; from all other work and service; and there they abode, even in the chambers of the temple, that they might be near to perform their work, and not be defiled, and made unfit for it:

for they were employed in that work day and night; some or other of them, either in composing or singing psalms and hymns, or teaching others how to sing them.

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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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is lᵉbôwnâh (“frankincense”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “frankincense” (lᵉbôwnâh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Exodus 30:34, which shares the word «frankincense», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “upon” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «מְמֻנִּים֙» is a Pual Participle Passive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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