1 Chronicles 9:40

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

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Highlights

1 first appearance in the Hebrew Bible

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וּמְרִי

Mᵉrîy Baʻal

H4810

“and · Merib-baal”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4805 and H1168

TWOT: None

Merib-baal = "Baal is my advocate" - another name for Mephibosheth - son of Jonathan and grandson of Saul

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 →

9: words
7: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּמְרִי Merib-baal H4810 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

וּמְרִי Merib-baal H4810

Grammatical profile

1 verb
7 nouns
1 particle

Verb forms

הוֹלִ֥יד Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

מְרִ֣יב Merib-baal H4807 ×2
וּמְרִי Merib-baal H4810 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 9 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

Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 9:40 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Samuel 4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
1 Chronicles 8:34–36 The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Chronicles 9:40 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבֶן יְהוֹנָתָ֖ן מְרִ֣יב בָּ֑עַל וּמְרִי בַ֖עַל הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת מִיכָֽה

The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 9:40 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός ιωναθαν μαριβααλ καί μαριβααλ γεννάω ὁ μιχα

And the son of Jonathan was Meribaal: and Meribaal begot Micha.

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 9:40 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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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

CHAPTER IX.

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).

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

Merib-Baal That is Mephibosheth (II Sam 4:4). Said Rabbi Isaac the son of Samuel of Narbonne: From the time that Israel worshipped the Baal, the Baal was called by the name of Bosheth (shame), as it is written (Jer. 11:13): “altars for the shameful thing, etc.,” for the Baal is a shameful thing. Gideon was called Jerubaal, based on the expression (Jud. 6:32): “Let Baal contend with him.” He was also called Jerubesheth, for it is written concerning Abimelech: “who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubesheth, etc.” in the Book of Samuel (II 11: 21). He is called Jerubesheth and Jerubaal, because Baal and Bosheth are synonymous.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mᵉrîy Baʻal (“Merib-baal”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “Merib-baal” (Mᵉrîy Baʻal) contribute to the verse as a whole?
The word “Merib-baal” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
2 Samuel 4:4 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“Merib-baal” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «הוֹלִ֥יד» is Hiphil Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary and Rashi read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
“Merib-baal” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.