1 Kings 16:5

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 16:5 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.
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Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now the rest of the matters of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel?

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
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    As for the rest of the acts of Baasha, along with his accomplishments and might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    As for the rest of the acts of Baasha, along with his accomplishments and might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the rest of the actes of Baasha and what he did, and his power, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    But the rest of the acts of Baasa and all that he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And the rest of the matters of Baasha, and that which he did, and his might, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the rest of the matters of Baasha, and that which he did, and his might, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    As for the other matters concerning Baasha, what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel?
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now the rest of the matters of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Israel?
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The rest of the events of Baasha's reign, everything that he did and what he accomplished, are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Now the rest of the acts of Baasa, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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בַעְשָׁ֛א
Baʻshâʼ
H1201
“Baasha”
Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Proper
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to stink

TWOT: None

Baasha = "wicked" - third king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the founder of its second dynasty having killed the second king, Nadab
  1. וְיֶ֨תֶר yether H3499 “and · remainder of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. דִּבְרֵ֥י dâbâr H1697 “words of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  3. וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “and · which” Conjunction + Particle, Relative
  4. עָשָׂ֖ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. וּגְבֽוּרָת֑וֹ gᵉbûwrâh H1369 “and · strength · his” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. הֲלֹא lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Interrogative + Particle, Negative
  7. הֵ֣ם hêm H1992 “they” Pronoun, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  8. כְּתוּבִ֗ים kâthab H3789 “written” Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  9. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  10. סֵ֛פֶר çêpher H5612 “book of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  11. דִּבְרֵ֥י dâbâr H1697 “words of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  12. הַיָּמִ֖ים yôwm H3117 “the · days” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  13. לְמַלְכֵ֥י melek H4428 “to/for · kings of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  14. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper

About this verse

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15
words
14
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בַעְשָׁ֛א Baasha H1201 occurs in 26 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 9 nouns
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 preposition
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • עָשָׂ֖ה Qal · Perfect
  • כְּתוּבִ֗ים Qal · Participle Passive

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • דִּבְרֵ֥י word H1697 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 29 words from the Hebrew and 33 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 15 Hebrew tokens and 26 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 Kings 16:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 14:19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
  • 1 Kings 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  • 2 Chronicles 16:1–6 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew 1 Kings 16:5 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְיֶ֨תֶר דִּבְרֵ֥י בַעְשָׁ֛א וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֖ה וּגְבֽוּרָת֑וֹ הֲלֹא הֵ֣ם כְּתוּבִ֗ים עַל סֵ֛פֶר דִּבְרֵ֥י הַיָּמִ֖ים לְמַלְכֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 16:5 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ λοιπός ὁ λόγος βαασα καί πᾶς ὅς ποιέω καί ὁ δυναστεία αὐτός οὐ ἰδού οὗτος γράφω ἐν βιβλίον λόγος ὁ ἡμέρα ὁ βασιλεύς ἰσραήλ

Now the rest of the history of Baasa, and all that he did, and his mighty acts, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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 →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וּשְׁאַר פִּתְגָמֵי בַעְשָׁא וְדִעֲבַד וּגְבוּרְתֵּיהּ הֲלָא אִינוּן כְּתִיבִין עַל סֵפֶר פִּתְגָמֵי יוֹמַיָא לְמַלְכֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 16:5 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Ver. 5. Now the rest.] See on 1Ki 14:19.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

16:5-7 The ministry of Jehu the prophet apparently covered both Israel and Judah, for he also wrote a history of events in Jehoshaphat’s reign that was included in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel (cp. 2 Chr 20:34).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, valiantness.

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

John Gill's Exposition

So Baasha slept with his fathers,.... Or died, not a violent, but natural, death:

and was buried in Tirzah; where was the royal palace of the kings of Israel:

and Elah his son reigned in his stead; yet but a short time.

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “might” of Baasha is sufficiently indicated by those successes which drove Asa to call Ben-hadad to his aid. 1Ki 15:17-21.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might as to which see 1Ki_15:17-21. He could hardly have given a stronger proof of his might thou by fortifying a post but five miles distant from Jerusalem. Keil, however, would interpret the word, both here and in, 1Ki_15:23, of his energy and strength in government. Better Bahr, tapfere Thaten. Ewald hence infers that Baasha was "a man of distinguished bravery" are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel?

This question is used to either inform or remind the readers that the information about Baasha is in this other book. This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. See how you translated this in 1 Kings 15:31. AT: "they are written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel." (See: Rhetorical Question)

are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel?

This can be stated in active form. AT: "someone has written about them in the book of the events of the kings of Israel." (See: Active or Passive)

Baasha slept with his ancestors

Sleeping is a euphemism that represents dying. AT: "Baasha died as his ancestors had" or "Like his ancestors, Baasha died" (See: Metaphorand Euphemism)

was buried

This can be stated in active form. AT: "people buried him" (See: Active or Passive)

Tirzah

This is the name of a city. See how you translated it in 1 Kings 14:17.

became king in his place

The phrase "in his place" is a metaphor meaning "instead of him." AT: "became king instead of Baasha" (See: Metaphor)

translationWords

might

written

king

asleep

bury

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Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Baʻshâʼ (“Baasha”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “Baasha” (Baʻshâʼ) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does 1 Kings 15:16, which shares the word «Baasha», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “word” (2× 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. «עָשָׂ֖ה» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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