1 Kings 21:6

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard.

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הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִ֜י

Yizrᵉʻêʼlîy

H3158

“the · Jezreelite”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Kings 21:1

Full BDB Definition

Origin: patronymically from H3157

TWOT: None

Jezreelite = see Jezreel " sown of God" - an inhabitant of Jezreel

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 →

28: words
16: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִ֜י Jezreelite H3158 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִ֜י Jezreelite H3158 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 verbs
6 nouns
1 adjective
1 pronoun
7 prepositions
3 conjunctions
3 particles

Verb forms

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר Piel · Sequential Imperfect
אֲ֠דַבֵּר Piel · Imperfect
וָאֹ֣מַר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
תְּנָה Qal · Imperative
אֶתְּנָה Qal · Cohortative
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
אֶתֵּ֥ן Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

תְּנָה to give H5414 ×3
כַּרְמְךָ֙ vineyard H3754 ×3
וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר to speak H1696 ×2
וָאֹ֣מַר to say H559 ×2
אֵלֶ֗יהָ to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 45 words from the Hebrew and 48 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 28 Hebrew tokens and 37 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 Kings 21:6 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 21:2–4 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it: or, if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth of it in money.
Esther 5:9–14 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and glad of heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
Esther 6:12 Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
Proverbs 14:30 The life of the body is a heart at peace, But envy rots the bones.
1 Timothy 6:9–10 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
James 4:2–7 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

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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 Kings 21:6 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר אֵלֶ֗יהָ כִּֽי אֲ֠דַבֵּר אֶל נָב֨וֹת הַיִּזְרְעֵאלִ֜י וָאֹ֣מַר ל֗וֹ תְּנָה לִּ֤י אֶֽת כַּרְמְךָ֙ בְּכֶ֔סֶף א֚וֹ אִם חָפֵ֣ץ אַתָּ֔ה אֶתְּנָה לְךָ֥ כֶ֖רֶם תַּחְתָּ֑יו וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לֹֽא אֶתֵּ֥ן לְךָ֖ אֶת כַּרְמִֽי

He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 21:6 Septuagint · lemma form

ὅτι οὗτος ὁ ὥρα αὔριον ἀποστέλλω ὁ παῖς ἐγώ πρός σύ καί ἐρευνάω ὁ οἶκος σύ καί ὁ οἶκος ὁ παῖς σύ καί εἰμί ὁ ἐπιθύμημα ὀφθαλμός αὐτός ἐπί ὅς ἄν ἐπιβάλλω ὁ χείρ αὐτός καί λαμβάνω

For at this time to-morrow I will send my servants to you, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants, and it shall be that all the desirable objects of their eyes on which they shall lay their hands, they shall even take them.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 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 →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וּמַלֵיל עִמָהּ אֲרֵי מַלְלֵית עִם נָבוֹת יִזְרְעֶאלָה וַאֲמַרִית לֵיהּ הַב לִי יַת כַּרְמָךְ בְּכַסְפָּא אוֹ אִם רָעֵי אַתְּ אֶתֵּן לָךְ כַּרְמָא חִלוּפוֹהִי וַאֲמַר לָא אֶתֵּן לָךְ יַת כַּרְמִי:

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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 21:6 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 →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 21:6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.

Ver. 6. And he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.] It is more than probable that Naboth, so good a man, as he refused to satisfy the desire of his sovereign herein, so also he humbly presented him with the reasons why he durst not do it; and that Ahab doth not faithfully relate Naboth’s answer.

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.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

6. I will not give thee my vineyard] For the last two words the LXX. has ‘the inheritance of my fathers.’ Of course it is to be understood that Ahab would lay before Jezebel the motive, from which Naboth had refused his king’s request. But the narrative is much more in character with the rest of Ahab’s behaviour, if he at first makes mention only of the blank refusal. The ground for holding firm to his inheritance would most likely have found an echo in many an Israelite’s heart. We see that Jezebel gives no hint to any one of the true cause for wishing to put Naboth out of the way. Had she done so, she must have mentioned the reason for his scruple, and the elders of Jezreel though they had forgotten the laws of Jehovah, would, for all that, not have cared to give publicity to Naboth’s answer.

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

So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal,.... He giving her leave, no doubt, to take his seal; though she might not communicate her scheme to him, lest he should object to it:

and sent the letters unto the elders, and to the nobles that were in his city dwelling with Naboth: to the chief magistrates of the city of Jezreel, where Naboth dwelt.

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

And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him; Give me thy vineyard for money Heb. silver; or else, if it please Heb. delight thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered Heb. said, I will not give thee my vineyard. Ahab does not mention the reason which Naboth assigned for his refusal. But Naboth"s reasons were nothing to him, and he had hardly given them a second thought.

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

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 28 words (16 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Yizrᵉʻêʼlîy (“Jezreelite”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Jezreelite” (Yizrᵉʻêʼlîy) shape what this verse is saying?
1 Kings 21:1 shares the word «Jezreelite» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to give” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר» is Piel Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 28 Hebrew ↔ 37 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“to give” occurs 3× in this single verse.
16 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 28 words in this verse.